Constituency
61. Ranpur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2000
OD-RANPUR
INC 46.7%won by 1.3%BJP 45.4%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.0% to 1.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Dal (JD) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.1% of the vote between them, up from 81.5% — 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
1,04,267
Margin
1,357
1.30%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1RAMAKANTA MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC48,67646.7%
- 2SURAMA PADHYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP47,31945.4%
- 3PURNA CHANDRA SAMANTARAYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,8293.7%
- 4PRAFULLA KUMAR DASHIndependent · IND2,5642.5%
- 5MADAN NANDAIndependent · IND1,4121.4%
- 6DINABANDHU BALIARSINGHBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3640.3%
- 7RABINARAYAN DASHIndependent · IND1030.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −47.9%
- INC share
- 51.7% → 46.7%
- BJP share
- 2.6% → 45.4%
- Turnout
- — → —