Constituency
27. Barchana
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-BARCHANA
INC 60.3%won by 37.3%JNP 23.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 36.3% to 37.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from JNPSC (JNPSC) to Janata Party (JNP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.4% of the vote between them, up from 73.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
73,530
Margin
27,437
37.31%
Candidates
10 contested · winner INC- 1SITAKANTA MAHAPATRAIndian National Congress · INC44,36360.3%
- 2MANAGOVINDA SAMALJanata Party · JNP16,92623.0%
- 3DIBAKARA BISWALCommunist Party of India · CPI4,1815.7%
- 4HARISH CHANDRA PRADHANIndependent · IND3,1284.3%
- 5PRAMODA KUMAR CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND1,5902.2%
- 6JAYANTI DASIndependent · IND1,3691.9%
- 7JAYANTA KUMAR BALABharatiya Janata Party · BJP9651.3%
- 8GADADHARA RANAIndependent · IND4880.7%
- 9SATYANARAYAN RAYIndependent · IND2740.4%
- 10BRAJAMOHAN SAMALIndependent · IND2460.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −12.4%
- INC share
- 54.9% → 60.3%
- JNP share
- 5.2% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- — → —