Constituency
87. Chitrakonda
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-CHITRAKONDA
INC 49.9%won by 17.8%JNP 32.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.7% to 17.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.1% of the vote between them, up from 75.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
20,817
Margin
3,696
17.75%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1GANGADHAR MADIIndian National Congress · INC10,38949.9%
- 2PRAHALLAD DORAJanata Party · JNP6,69332.2%
- 3PRASAD BHUMIACommunist Party of India · CPI2,29811.0%
- 4GANGADHAR JHOLAIndependent · IND1,4376.9%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −11.9%
- INC share
- 52.4% → 49.9%
- JNP share
- 22.7% → 32.2%
- Turnout
- — → —