Constituency
61. Ranpur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-RANPUR
INC 63.4%won by 43.2%JNP 20.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 27.1% to 43.2%.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 20.2% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.6% of the vote between them, up from 75.9% — 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
64,108
Margin
27,681
43.18%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1RAMAKANTA MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC40,64263.4%
- 2SHANTI DASJanata Party · JNP12,96120.2%
- 3RAMESH CHANDRA PANDACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,24414.4%
- 4SANKAR MALIKIndependent · IND9681.5%
- 5BIDHU BHUSHAN PATTANAIKIndependent · IND2930.5%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −8.3%
- INC share
- 51.5% → 63.4%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 20.2%
- Turnout
- — → —