Constituency
270. Sambalpur
Community mirrorOrissa · India Lok Sabha Election, 1957
IN-SAMBALPUR
GP 29.0%won by 0.5%GP 28.6%
What changed here
DerivedGP held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.9% to 0.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 25.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 57.6% between them, down from 84.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 25.1% to 58.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,96,199
Turnout
58.0%
Valid votes
4,62,051
Margin
2,153
0.47%
Candidates
5 contested · winner GP- 1BANAMALI KUMBHARGP · GP1,34,12729.0%
- 2SRADHAKAR SUPAKARGP · GP1,31,97428.6%
- 3GHANASHYAM DASIndian National Congress · INC84,66518.3%
- 4MOHAN NAGIndian National Congress · INC74,95416.2%
- 5LAXMINARAYAN MISRAIndependent · IND36,3317.9%
Since 1951
Derived- Winner then
- GP
- Winner now
- GP
- GP–GP swing
- 0.0%
- GP share
- 55.0% → 29.0%
- GP share
- 55.0% → 29.0%
- Turnout
- 32.9% → 58.0%