Constituency
141. Bonai
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1985
OD-BONAI
INC 28.9%won by 1.5%CPM 27.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.9% to 1.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
36,301
Margin
548
1.51%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1BASANTA KUMAR SINGH DANDPATIndian National Congress · INC10,50928.9%
- 2RABINARAYAN NAIKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,96127.4%
- 3HEMENDRA PRASAD MAHAPATRAJanata Party · JNP8,76324.1%
- 4RAMA CHANDRA KISANIndependent · IND4,46912.3%
- 5HEMANTA KUMAR SINGH DANDPATBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,5814.4%
- 6SHAKUNTALA SANDILIndependent · IND5731.6%
- 7CHANDRAMANI SAHUIndependent · IND4451.2%
Since 1980
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPM swing
- −15.4%
- INC share
- 34.9% → 28.9%
- CPM share
- 18.0% → 27.4%
- Turnout
- — → —