Constituency
38. Jagatsinghpur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-JAGATSINGHPUR
INC 43.9%won by 16.8%JNPSC 27.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 16.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 37.4% to 43.9% of the vote here (+6.5%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 27.2% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.1% between them, down from 92.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
49,168
Margin
8,238
16.75%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1KRUSHNA CHANDRA MALLIKIndian National Congress · INC21,58843.9%
- 2KANDURI CHARAN MALLIKJNPSC · JNPSC13,35027.2%
- 3PRAHALLAD SETHICommunist Party of India · CPI13,00726.5%
- 4SIKHARA DASIndependent · IND1,2232.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −20.7%
- INC share
- 37.4% → 43.9%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 27.2%
- Turnout
- — → —