Constituency
128. Sambalpur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-SAMBALPUR
INC 64.9%won by 48.2%JNPSC 16.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 48.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 42.0% to 64.9% of the vote here (+22.9%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 16.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.6% between them, down from 95.1% — 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
45,633
Margin
21,984
48.18%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1ASWINI KUMAR GURUIndian National Congress · INC29,60364.9%
- 2BISHNU PRASAD MISHRAJNPSC · JNPSC7,61916.7%
- 3SAIRENDRI NAIKIndependent · IND6,38614.0%
- 4SATYANARAYAN PRADHANIndependent · IND1,1162.4%
- 5BISWANATH DEHATIIndependent · IND9092.0%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- +6.2%
- INC share
- 42.0% → 64.9%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 16.7%
- Turnout
- — → —