Constituency
312. Kalahandi
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-KALAHANDI
GP 72.4%won by 44.8%INC 27.6%
What changed here
DerivedGP held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.9% to 44.8%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from GP (GP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 69.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 40.0% to 24.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,73,402
Turnout
24.4%
Valid votes
91,115
Margin
40,833
44.81%
Candidates
2 contested · winner GP- 1PRATAP KESSARI DEOGP · GP65,97472.4%
- 2SURESH CHANDRA BEHERAIndian National Congress · INC25,14127.6%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- GP
- Winner now
- GP
- GP–INC swing
- +22.7%
- GP share
- 37.1% → 72.4%
- INC share
- 14.9% → 27.6%
- Turnout
- 64.4% → 24.4%