Constituency
316. Keonjhar
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-KEONJHAR
INC 58.2%won by 16.5%GP 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 16.5%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 23.9% to 58.2% of the vote here (+34.3%).
- New challengerGP (GP) finished second with 41.8% — it did not contest here in 1957.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 90.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 10.1% to 16.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
3,70,850
Turnout
16.8%
Valid votes
62,390
Margin
10,282
16.48%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INC- 1LAXMI NARAYAN BHANJA DEOIndian National Congress · INC36,33658.2%
- 2RAJBALLABH MISHRAGP · GP26,05441.8%
Since 1957
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–GP swing
- −7.4%
- INC share
- 23.9% → 58.2%
- GP share
- 0.0% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- 26.9% → 16.8%