Constituency
310. Bolangir
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971
IN-BOLANGIR
SWA 61.9%won by 35.2%INC 26.7%
What changed here
DerivedSwatantra Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.4% to 35.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.6% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.5% to 40.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,01,534
Turnout
40.3%
Valid votes
2,01,903
Margin
70,976
35.15%
Candidates
4 contested · winner SWA- 1RAJ RAJ SINGH DEOSwatantra Party · SWA1,24,94561.9%
- 2SADANANDA MISRAIndian National Congress · INC53,96926.7%
- 3SWAPNANANDA PANIGRAHIUTC · UTC16,7038.3%
- 4MAHABIR PRASAD DODAKAIndependent · IND6,2863.1%
Since 1967
Derived- Winner then
- SWA
- Winner now
- SWA
- SWA–INC swing
- −5.2%
- SWA share
- 70.2% → 61.9%
- INC share
- 29.8% → 26.7%
- Turnout
- 43.8% → 40.3%