Constituency
139. Rourkela
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1980
OD-ROURKELA
INC 34.1%won by 19.4%JNPSC 14.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 19.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 13.8% to 34.1% of the vote here (+20.3%).
- New challengerJNPSC (JNPSC) finished second with 14.7% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 48.9% between them, down from 76.2% — 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
48,038
Margin
9,316
19.39%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1GURUPADA NANDAIndian National Congress · INC16,39634.1%
- 2BRAJA KISHORE MOHANTYJNPSC · JNPSC7,08014.7%
- 3ANWAR AHMEDBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,09712.7%
- 4BATAKRUSHNA PANDAIndependent · IND5,90112.3%
- 5SK. QUASIMSUC · SUC4,4549.3%
- 6ARUN KUMAR PANDAINCU · INCU3,0346.3%
- 7ANIL KUMAR SINGHJKD · JKD2,5725.4%
- 8PRABHAT KUMAR MISHRACommunist Party of India · CPI1,7183.6%
- 9ATUL MOHANTYIndependent · IND6311.3%
- 10ISWAR PRASADIndependent · IND1550.3%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNPSC swing
- +5.6%
- INC share
- 13.8% → 34.1%
- JNPSC share
- 0.0% → 14.7%
- Turnout
- — → —