Constituency
75. Berhampur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-BERHAMPUR
INC 51.4%won by 17.7%IND 33.7%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 39.1% to 17.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from INCU (INCU) to Independent (IND).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.1% between them, down from 93.5% — the field split more ways.
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
51,911
Margin
9,182
17.69%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1SIBASANKAR SAHANIIndian National Congress · INC26,67051.4%
- 2BINAYAK MOHAPATRAIndependent · IND17,48833.7%
- 3ALIKISHOR PATNAYAKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,7797.3%
- 4KHALI SAHUIndependent · IND1,8283.5%
- 5SATISH KUMAR PATRAOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,0262.0%
- 6BALAJI SAHUIndependent · IND6091.2%
- 7RAMA CHANDRA SAHUIndependent · IND2730.5%
- 8KASINATH MOHAPATROIndependent · IND2380.5%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–IND swing
- −45.4%
- INC share
- 66.3% → 51.4%
- IND share
- 3.2% → 33.7%
- Turnout
- — → —