Constituency
76. Chikati
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-CHIKATI
INC 61.7%won by 23.5%JNP 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 23.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.7% to 61.7% of the vote here (+32.0%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 38.3% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 65.6% — 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
70,722
Margin
16,606
23.48%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1CHINTAMANI DAYAN SAMANTARAIndian National Congress · INC43,66461.7%
- 2USHA DEVIJanata Party · JNP27,05838.3%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–JNP swing
- −6.3%
- INC share
- 29.7% → 61.7%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- — → —