Constituency

304. Bhanjanagar

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Odisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971

IN-BHANJANAGAR

CPI 41.8%won by 1.2%UTC 40.6%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (CPI), which now leads by 1.2%.

CPI vote shareCPI went from 30.0% to 41.8% of the vote here (+11.8%).
New challengerUTC (UTC) finished second with 40.6% — it did not contest here in 1967.
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 82.3% of the vote between them, up from 62.1% — a tighter two-way contest.

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

Electorate

5,60,369

Turnout

44.0%

Valid votes

2,46,583

Margin

2,858

1.16%