Constituency
112. Sonepur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-SONEPUR
INC 66.2%won by 50.9%INCU 15.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 50.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 45.2% to 66.2% of the vote here (+21.1%).
- New challengerINCU (INCU) finished second with 15.4% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.6% between them, down from 94.5% — 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
30,971
Margin
15,751
50.86%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1DHANESWAR KUMBHARIndian National Congress · INC20,51266.2%
- 2RAMAKANTA SETHINCU · INCU4,76115.4%
- 3KALAKANHU BAGJNPSC · JNPSC4,39814.2%
- 4ABHIMANYU BARIKIndependent · IND1,3004.2%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–INCU swing
- +5.7%
- INC share
- 45.2% → 66.2%
- INCU share
- 0.0% → 15.4%
- Turnout
- — → —