Constituency
121. Pallahara
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-PALLAHARA
INC 44.0%won by 9.8%JNP 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.9% to 9.8%.
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 34.2% — it did not contest here in 1980.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.2% of the vote between them, up from 57.4% — 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
47,264
Margin
4,622
9.78%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1BIBHUDHENDRA PRATAP DASIndian National Congress · INC20,78444.0%
- 2NRUSINGHA CH. SAHUJanata Party · JNP16,16234.2%
- 3BANSHIDHAR SAHUIndependent · IND4,85610.3%
- 4TANKADHAR SAHUIndependent · IND2,9146.2%
- 5AMARENDRA KUMAR DILLESHWAREIndependent · IND2,5485.4%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JNP swing
- −29.9%
- INC share
- 39.7% → 44.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- — → —