Constituency
74. Gopalpur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1995
OD-GOPALPUR
JD 48.4%won by 0.5%INC 47.8%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 29.6% to 0.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 508 votes (0.55%) — among the closest results anywhere.
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
92,595
Margin
508
0.55%
Candidates
4 contested · winner JD- 1RAMA CHANDRA SETHYJanata Dal · JD44,79548.4%
- 2TRINATH BEHERAIndian National Congress · INC44,28747.8%
- 3KROSHNA CHANDRA BEHERABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,7821.9%
- 4JYOTIRAJ DASIndependent · IND1,7311.9%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–INC swing
- −29.0%
- JD share
- 62.8% → 48.4%
- INC share
- 33.2% → 47.8%
- Turnout
- — → —