Constituency
315. Balasore
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1977
IN-BALASORE
BLD 55.7%won by 17.4%INC 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to BLD (BLD), which now leads by 17.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- BLD vote shareBLD went from 0.0% to 55.7% of the vote here (+55.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.1% of the vote between them, up from 66.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.8% to 55.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
6,15,737
Turnout
55.4%
Valid votes
3,41,260
Margin
59,461
17.42%
Candidates
3 contested · winner BLD- 1SAMARENDRA KUNDUBLD · BLD1,90,21955.7%
- 2SHYAM SUNDAR MAHAPATRAIndian National Congress · INC1,30,75838.3%
- 3PITAMBAR PANDACommunist Party of India · CPI20,2835.9%
Since 1971
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1971 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BLDflipped
- BLD–INC swing
- +55.4%
- BLD share
- 0.0% → 55.7%
- INC share
- 38.0% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- 49.7% → 55.4%