Constituency
88. Kotpad
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-KOTPAD
INC 69.5%won by 49.6%INCU 19.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 33.0% to 49.6%.
- New challengerINCU (INCU) finished second with 19.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.3% 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
18,989
Margin
9,424
49.63%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1BASUDEV MAJHIIndian National Congress · INC13,19169.5%
- 2PRABHUDAN BHATRAINCU · INCU3,76719.8%
- 3DHANSAI RANDHARIJNPSC · JNPSC2,03110.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–INCU swing
- −16.9%
- INC share
- 66.5% → 69.5%
- INCU share
- 0.0% → 19.8%
- Turnout
- — → —