Constituency
137. Rajgangpur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-RAJGANGPUR
INC 33.0%won by 7.0%JNPSC 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 7.0%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 27.8% to 33.0% of the vote here (+5.2%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 26.0% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 59.0% between them, down from 77.2% — 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
32,777
Margin
2,306
7.04%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1MUKHARAM NAIKIndian National Congress · INC10,82733.0%
- 2MANGUAL KISANJNPSC · JNPSC8,52126.0%
- 3SURAJ KISHORE KUJURJKD · JKD7,90224.1%
- 4JASEPH LAKRAIndependent · IND2,9278.9%
- 5GANGADHAR PRADHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,9465.9%
- 6JAMES TOPPOIndependent · IND4281.3%
- 7ARTHUR TIRKEYINCU · INCU2260.7%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- −20.8%
- INC share
- 27.8% → 33.0%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —