Constituency
309. Phulbani
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-PHULBANI
SWA 45.2%won by 13.6%INC 31.6%
What changed here
DerivedSwatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.8% to 13.6%.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,15,484
Turnout
29.5%
Valid votes
1,51,940
Margin
20,702
13.63%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SWA- 1BOKSI NAYAKSwatantra Party · SWA68,70545.2%
- 2TRINATH NAYAKIndian National Congress · INC48,00331.6%
- 3PRAHALADA BEHERAUTC · UTC22,61114.9%
- 4ANIRUDHA DIPAIndependent · IND12,6218.3%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- SWA
- SWA–INC swing
- −2.2%
- SWA share
- 47.2% → 45.2%
- INC share
- 31.4% → 31.6%
- Turnout
- 29.1% → 29.5%