Constituency
8. Baisinga
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-BAISINGA
INC 67.9%won by 47.7%CPM 20.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 24.9% to 47.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.2% between them, down from 93.8% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 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
40,115
Margin
19,117
47.66%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1PRUTHUNATH KISKUIndian National Congress · INC27,25267.9%
- 2GANGADHAR MARNDICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,13520.3%
- 3ANANTA MAJHIJanata Party · JNP4,72811.8%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- +22.7%
- INC share
- 59.4% → 67.9%
- CPM share
- 34.5% → 20.3%
- Turnout
- — → —