Constituency
6. Kuliana
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-KULIANA
INC 55.6%won by 38.9%JNP 16.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.4% to 38.9%.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 16.7% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 72.2% of the vote between them, up from 49.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
34,564
Margin
13,439
38.88%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1SARASWATI HEMBRAMIndian National Congress · INC19,20455.6%
- 2KANJHU CHARAN SORENJanata Party · JNP5,76516.7%
- 3GURU CHARAN MAJHIIndependent · IND4,92314.2%
- 4INDU BHUSAN HEMBRAMIndependent · IND2,5167.3%
- 5ROHIDAS NAGJKD · JKD1,2083.5%
- 6PRAFULLAIndependent · IND9482.7%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- +9.3%
- INC share
- 29.6% → 55.6%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 16.7%
- Turnout
- — → —