Constituency
14. Balasore
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-BALASORE
INC 47.4%won by 0.1%CPI 47.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 34.5% to 47.4% of the vote here (+12.9%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.7% of the vote between them, up from 73.8% — 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
75,619
Margin
69
0.09%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1GOPANARAYAN DASIndian National Congress · INC35,83047.4%
- 2ARUN DAYCommunist Party of India · CPI35,76147.3%
- 3JAGANNATH JEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,2062.9%
- 4BHASKAR CHANDRA JENAIndependent · IND9881.3%
- 5TARULATA BEHERAIndependent · IND6450.9%
- 6BIBEKANANDA SENIndependent · IND1890.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +5.0%
- INC share
- 34.5% → 47.4%
- CPI share
- 39.3% → 47.3%
- Turnout
- — → —