Constituency
319. Puri
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1962
IN-PURI
INC 60.7%won by 21.4%CPI 39.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 21.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 43.7% to 60.7% of the vote here (+17.0%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 100.0% of the vote between them, up from 92.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.2% to 29.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,75,128
Turnout
29.1%
Valid votes
1,38,131
Margin
29,565
21.40%
Candidates
2 contested · winner INCSince 1957
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPI swing
- +26.5%
- INC share
- 43.7% → 60.7%
- CPI share
- 48.8% → 39.3%
- Turnout
- 38.3% → 29.1%