Constituency
16. Simulia
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-SIMULIA
INC 46.9%won by 14.4%JNP 32.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Party (JNP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 20.9% to 46.9% of the vote here (+26.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.4% of the vote between them, up from 49.3% — 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
51,620
Margin
7,459
14.45%
Candidates
9 contested · winner INC- 1PADAMALOCHAN PANDAIndian National Congress · INC24,23146.9%
- 2PARSURAM PANIGRAHIJanata Party · JNP16,77232.5%
- 3PURNA CHANDRA PANDACommunist Party of India · CPI6,37112.3%
- 4HAREKRUSHNA DASHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,4604.8%
- 5RADHAKANTA BISWALIndependent · IND7321.4%
- 6BHASKAR DASIndependent · IND5751.1%
- 7SAROJ BIHARI MOHANTYIndependent · IND1830.4%
- 8LAXMIDHAR BEHERAIndependent · IND1780.3%
- 9SADHU CHARAN MOHAPATRAIndependent · IND1180.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- JNP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNP swing
- +21.8%
- INC share
- 20.9% → 46.9%
- JNP share
- 28.3% → 32.5%
- Turnout
- — → —