Constituency
344. Bhubaneswar
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1967
IN-BHUBANESWAR
INC 35.5%won by 9.2%CPI 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.8% to 9.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 28.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.8% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 15.1% to 43.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,15,093
Turnout
43.7%
Valid votes
2,25,102
Margin
20,731
9.21%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1C. PANIGRAHIIndian National Congress · INC79,89935.5%
- 2P. PATNAIKCommunist Party of India · CPI59,16826.3%
- 3N. C. SAMANTSINHARSwatantra Party · SWA38,01516.9%
- 4M. MISRAIndependent · IND37,20916.5%
- 5H. S. SAMANTAIndependent · IND10,8114.8%
Since 1962
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1962 and 1967. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −19.6%
- INC share
- 64.4% → 35.5%
- CPI share
- 35.6% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- 28.6% → 43.7%