Constituency
125. Bijepur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-BIJEPUR
INC 48.7%won by 23.9%JNPSC 24.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 23.9%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 32.8% to 48.7% of the vote here (+15.9%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 24.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.5% between them, down from 96.2% — 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
48,566
Margin
11,630
23.95%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1RAJIB LOCHAN HOTAIndian National Congress · INC23,65648.7%
- 2SIBA PRASAD PADHANJNPSC · JNPSC12,02624.8%
- 3SANKAR GADATIACommunist Party of India · CPI9,22019.0%
- 4BHOLA BARIKINCU · INCU3,6647.5%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −8.9%
- INC share
- 32.8% → 48.7%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 24.8%
- Turnout
- — → —