Constituency
59. Khurda
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-KHURDA
INC 48.8%won by 17.9%JNPSC 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 17.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 24.5% to 48.8% of the vote here (+24.2%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 30.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.6% of the vote between them, up from 66.5% — 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
54,492
Margin
9,754
17.90%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1PRASANNA KUMAR PATSANIIndian National Congress · INC26,57348.8%
- 2SUDARSAN MOHANTYJNPSC · JNPSC16,81930.9%
- 3PURNA CHANDRA BADAJENACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,45317.3%
- 4BANAMBAR PRADHANIndependent · IND1,1262.1%
- 5DUKHISHYAM MANGARAJIndependent · IND5211.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −6.6%
- INC share
- 24.5% → 48.8%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —