Constituency
314. Kalahandi
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1980
IN-KALAHANDI
INCI 51.2%won by 18.3%JNP 32.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Independent (IND) lost it to INCI (INCI), which now leads by 18.3%.
- INCI vote shareINCI went from 0.0% to 51.2% of the vote here (+51.2%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 32.8% — it did not contest here in 1977.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.0% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 9.5% to 43.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
5,77,063
Turnout
43.2%
Valid votes
2,49,063
Margin
45,627
18.32%
Candidates
4 contested · winner INCI- 1RASABEHARI BEHARAINCI · INCI1,27,41351.2%
- 2PRATAP KESHARI DEOJanata Party · JNP81,78632.8%
- 3KIRAN CHANDRA SINGH DEOJNPS · JNPS25,07110.1%
- 4DINABANDHU AGARWALIndependent · IND14,7935.9%
Since 1977
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- INCIflipped
- INCI–JNP swing
- +18.3%
- INCI share
- 0.0% → 51.2%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 32.8%
- Turnout
- 33.6% → 43.2%