Constituency
269. Puri
Community mirrorOrissa · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-PURI
CPI 48.8%won by 5.1%INC 43.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 5.1%.
- CPI vote shareCPI went from 44.8% to 48.8% of the vote here (+4.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 92.4% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,11,216
Turnout
38.3%
Valid votes
1,57,551
Margin
8,036
5.10%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1CHINTAMANI PANIGRAHICommunist Party of India · CPI76,83948.8%
- 2LOKANATH MISRAIndian National Congress · INC68,80343.7%
- 3NANDA KUMAR SHUKLAIndependent · IND11,9097.6%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPIflipped
- CPI–INC swing
- +15.6%
- CPI share
- 44.8% → 48.8%
- INC share
- 55.2% → 43.7%
- Turnout
- 40.1% → 38.3%