Constituency
297. Balasore
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-BALASORE
INC 38.0%won by 9.1%PSP 28.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Praja Socialist Party (PSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 9.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 34.2% to 38.0% of the vote here (+3.8%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.8% between them, down from 83.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,24,558
Turnout
49.7%
Valid votes
2,60,557
Margin
23,787
9.13%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INC- 1SHYAMSUNDAR MOHAPATRAIndian National Congress · INC98,92638.0%
- 2SAMARENDRA KUNDUPraja Socialist Party · PSP75,13928.8%
- 3NILAMANI ROUTRAIUTC · UTC52,72020.2%
- 4KANAKLATA DEVISwatantra Party · SWA33,77213.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- PSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–PSP swing
- +24.7%
- INC share
- 34.2% → 38.0%
- PSP share
- 49.7% → 28.8%
- Turnout
- 49.2% → 49.7%