Constituency

302. Puri

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Odisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971

IN-PURI

INC 40.5%won by 16.1%UTC 24.3%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Samyukta Socialist Party (SSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 16.1%.

INC vote shareINC went from 34.8% to 40.5% of the vote here (+5.7%).
New challengerUTC (UTC) finished second with 24.3% — it did not contest here in 1967.
Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.8% between them, down from 94.0% — the field split more ways.
TurnoutTurnout rose 4.1% to 50.8%.

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

Electorate

5,70,745

Turnout

50.8%

Valid votes

2,89,995

Margin

46,777

16.13%