Constituency
38. Jagatsinghpur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-JAGATSINGHPUR
INC 53.2%won by 12.3%JNP 40.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.8% to 12.3%.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 40.8% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.0% of the vote between them, up from 71.1% — 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
65,658
Margin
8,086
12.32%
Candidates
3 contested · winner INC- 1KAILASH CHANDRA MALLIKIndian National Congress · INC34,90553.2%
- 2BISHNU CHARAN DASJanata Party · JNP26,81940.8%
- 3PRAHALLAD SETHYCommunist Party of India · CPI3,9346.0%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −31.6%
- INC share
- 43.9% → 53.2%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 40.8%
- Turnout
- — → —