Constituency

313. Keonjhar

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Odisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1971

IN-KEONJHAR

INC 43.5%won by 13.3%UTC 30.2%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Swatantra Party (SWA) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 13.3%.

INC vote shareINC went from 32.8% to 43.5% of the vote here (+10.6%).
New challengerUTC (UTC) finished second with 30.2% — it did not contest here in 1967.
Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.6% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
TurnoutTurnout rose 2.5% to 30.4%.

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

Electorate

4,81,496

Turnout

30.4%

Valid votes

1,46,552

Margin

19,512

13.31%