Constituency
101. Kesinga
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-KESINGA
INC 49.7%won by 28.8%JNPSC 20.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 28.8%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 26.6% to 49.7% of the vote here (+23.1%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 20.9% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 70.6% of the vote between them, up from 60.8% — 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
44,169
Margin
12,724
28.81%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1BHUPINDER SINGHIndian National Congress · INC21,95549.7%
- 2NILAMANI SAHUJNPSC · JNPSC9,23120.9%
- 3NAGENDRANATH CHOUDHURYINCU · INCU8,03818.2%
- 4GOPINATH BUDHIAIndependent · IND2,5675.8%
- 5ASHAKARI NAGIndependent · IND8752.0%
- 6JATIN DASIndependent · IND6641.5%
- 7HIMANCHAL BHOIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6371.4%
- 8MANOJKUMAR PADHIIndependent · IND2020.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- +2.2%
- INC share
- 26.6% → 49.7%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 20.9%
- Turnout
- — → —