Constituency
72. Chatrapur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-CHATRAPUR
INC 47.8%won by 11.5%CPI 36.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 11.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.1% to 47.8% of the vote here (+18.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.5% — 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
58,668
Margin
6,747
11.50%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1ASHOK KUMAR CHOUDHURYIndian National Congress · INC28,02147.8%
- 2BISWANATH SAHUCommunist Party of India · CPI21,27436.3%
- 3RAMA CHANDRA SETHIJanata Party · JNP5,2869.0%
- 4BRAJA SUNDAR PANDAIndependent · IND1,8123.1%
- 5SADASIVA SAHUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9681.6%
- 6NIRANJAN TRIPATHYLKD · LKD8081.4%
- 7RAMA CHANDRA BEHERAIndependent · IND4990.9%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +29.9%
- INC share
- 29.1% → 47.8%
- CPI share
- 47.4% → 36.3%
- Turnout
- — → —