Constituency
56. Puri
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-PURI
JNP 50.9%won by 6.5%INC 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 6.5%.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 26.1% to 50.9% of the vote here (+24.8%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.2% of the vote between them, up from 76.8% — 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
65,947
Margin
4,314
6.54%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JNP- 1BRAJAKISHOR TRIPATHYJanata Party · JNP33,56150.9%
- 2GADADHAR MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC29,24744.3%
- 3BHASKER CHANDRA MOHANTYLKD · LKD1,8702.8%
- 4PITABAS MISHRAIndependent · IND6090.9%
- 5BISWANATH PADDYIndependent · IND4230.6%
- 6MADHUSUDAN DASIndependent · IND2370.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–INC swing
- +31.1%
- JNP share
- 26.1% → 50.9%
- INC share
- 50.7% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- — → —