Constituency

261. Cuttack

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Orissa · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957

IN-CUTTACK

INC 50.9%won by 1.8%PSP 49.1%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.3% to 1.8%.

Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
New challengerPraja Socialist Party (PSP) finished second with 49.1% — it did not contest here in 1951.
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 78.6% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate

4,34,421

Turnout

41.1%

Valid votes

1,78,408

Margin

3,150

1.77%