Constituency

298. Bhadrak

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Odisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971

IN-BHADRAK

INC 45.5%won by 14.7%UTC 30.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 14.7%.

INC vote shareINC went from 20.7% to 45.5% of the vote here (+24.8%).
New challengerUTC (UTC) finished second with 30.8% — it did not contest here in 1967.
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 76.3% of the vote between them, up from 63.8% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate

6,01,170

Turnout

52.4%

Valid votes

3,15,271

Margin

46,329

14.69%