Constituency
22. Basudevpur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-BASUDEVPUR
INC 48.5%won by 0.2%JNP 48.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.4% to 0.2%.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 48.2% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.7% of the vote between them, up from 81.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
72,509
Margin
175
0.24%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1MADHU SADAN PANIGRAHIIndian National Congress · INC35,15348.5%
- 2BIJYOSHREE ROUTROYJanata Party · JNP34,97848.2%
- 3PRAFULLA MALIKIndependent · IND2,1012.9%
- 4SAHADEB DASIndependent · IND2770.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −47.3%
- INC share
- 47.5% → 48.5%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 48.2%
- Turnout
- — → —