Constituency

268. Mayurbhanj

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Orissa · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957

IN-MAYURBHANJ

IND 34.1%won by 4.5%GP 29.6%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 4.5%.

IND vote shareIND went from 20.1% to 34.1% of the vote here (+14.0%).
New challengerGP (GP) finished second with 29.6% — it did not contest here in 1951.
Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.7% between them, down from 79.9% — the field split more ways.
TurnoutTurnout fell 4.3% to 24.4%.

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

Electorate

3,98,171

Turnout

24.4%

Valid votes

97,175

Margin

4,344

4.47%