Constituency
13. Basta
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-BASTA
INC 67.8%won by 50.8%CPI 17.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 30.2% to 50.8%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 17.0% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.9% of the vote between them, up from 75.4% — 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
64,453
Margin
32,737
50.79%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1BHUPAL CHANDRA MAHAPATRAIndian National Congress · INC43,72267.8%
- 2SAMBHUNATH MOHANTYCommunist Party of India · CPI10,98517.0%
- 3RAGHUNATH MOHANTYJanata Party · JNP8,29712.9%
- 4MADHU SADAN BAHERAIndependent · IND1,4492.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −2.0%
- INC share
- 52.8% → 67.8%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 17.0%
- Turnout
- — → —