Constituency
7. Baripada
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-BARIPADA
INC 54.6%won by 33.1%IND 21.6%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.8% to 33.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.2% between them, down from 98.1% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
54,210
Margin
17,928
33.07%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1PRASANNA KUMAR DASHIndian National Congress · INC29,62354.6%
- 2CHHATISH CHANDRA DHALIndependent · IND11,69521.6%
- 3AJAY KUMAR DASHJanata Party · JNP6,78312.5%
- 4JAY CHANDRA PATRIIndependent · IND3,4526.4%
- 5PADMA LOCHAN MOHANTAJKD · JKD1,3162.4%
- 6JAGANNATH PATRAIndependent · IND7971.5%
- 7BISWANATHIndependent · IND5441.0%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- +29.3%
- INC share
- 50.9% → 54.6%
- IND share
- 47.2% → 21.6%
- Turnout
- — → —