Constituency
308. Kalahandi
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-KALAHANDI
SWA 56.9%won by 42.1%INC 14.8%
What changed here
DerivedSwatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 37.1% to 42.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 11.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.7% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.1% to 35.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
4,36,752
Turnout
35.9%
Valid votes
1,56,644
Margin
65,874
42.05%
Candidates
6 contested · winner SWA- 1PRATAP KESHARI DEOSwatantra Party · SWA89,09856.9%
- 2ARJUN PATTJOSHIIndian National Congress · INC23,22414.8%
- 3GANGADHAR HOTAUTC · UTC15,5209.9%
- 4TRIPURA MAJHIPraja Socialist Party · PSP14,3249.1%
- 5MANU MAJHIIndependent · IND8,1555.2%
- 6PREMLAL PRADHANIndependent · IND6,3234.0%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- SWA
- SWA–INC swing
- +4.9%
- SWA share
- 68.6% → 56.9%
- INC share
- 31.4% → 14.8%
- Turnout
- 38.0% → 35.9%