Constituency
84. Pottangi
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-POTTANGI
INC 61.9%won by 35.9%JNPSC 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 35.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 47.1% to 61.9% of the vote here (+14.7%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.8% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
14,372
Margin
5,159
35.90%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1CHANDRAMA SANTAIndian National Congress · INC8,89061.9%
- 2PANGI JAYARAMJNPSC · JNPSC3,73126.0%
- 3BOINI ELLAYAIndependent · IND1,75112.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −11.2%
- INC share
- 47.1% → 61.9%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —