Constituency
58. Chilka
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-CHILKA
INC 50.1%won by 13.6%BJP 36.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 26.9% to 50.1% of the vote here (+23.3%).
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 36.6% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.7% of the vote between them, up from 68.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
59,557
Margin
8,090
13.58%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1DEBENDRANATH MANSINGHIndian National Congress · INC29,86050.1%
- 2BISWABHUSAN HARICHANDANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP21,77036.6%
- 3RAMA CHANDRA PRAHARAJJNPSC · JNPSC3,9246.6%
- 4BHABANI SANKAR MOHAPATRAINCU · INCU1,7352.9%
- 5MURALI GHADEIIndependent · IND1,5072.5%
- 6SARAT KUMAR MANSINGHFBL · FBL7611.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −13.3%
- INC share
- 26.9% → 50.1%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 36.6%
- Turnout
- — → —