Constituency
17. Nilgiri
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2000
OD-NILGIRI
CPM 41.6%won by 15.0%IND 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 15.0%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 28.3% to 41.6% of the vote here (+13.3%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 68.2% of the vote between them, up from 58.7% — 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
1,18,084
Margin
17,735
15.02%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1PRADIPTA PANDACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM49,13741.6%
- 2DAMODAR MAHAPATRAIndependent · IND31,40226.6%
- 3SHYAMANANDA MOHAPATRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP22,92419.4%
- 4SUKUMAR NAYAKIndian National Congress · INC12,55110.6%
- 5SUNITIMANI SINGIndependent · IND1,7771.5%
- 6SADAN SINGIndependent · IND2930.2%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–IND swing
- −5.5%
- CPM share
- 28.3% → 41.6%
- IND share
- 7.8% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- — → —