Constituency
314. Sambalpur
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-SAMBALPUR
SOC 42.2%won by 2.7%INC 39.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: GP (GP) lost it to SOC (SOC), which now leads by 2.7%.
- SOC vote shareSOC went from 0.0% to 42.2% of the vote here (+42.2%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from GP (GP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.7% of the vote between them, up from 57.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 37.8% to 20.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,33,181
Turnout
20.2%
Valid votes
87,684
Margin
2,368
2.70%
Candidates
3 contested · winner SOC- 1KISAN PATTANAYAKSOC · SOC37,00942.2%
- 2BINOD BIHARI DASIndian National Congress · INC34,64139.5%
- 3PANDA GANGA BHUSANGP · GP16,03418.3%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- GP
- Winner now
- SOCflipped
- SOC–INC swing
- +21.0%
- SOC share
- 0.0% → 42.2%
- INC share
- 18.3% → 39.5%
- Turnout
- 58.0% → 20.2%