Constituency
315. Bhubaneswar
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-BHUBANESWAR
CPM 43.5%won by 1.6%INC 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.6% to 1.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.3% between them, down from 91.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 9.1% to 48.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,16,696
Turnout
48.5%
Valid votes
4,93,139
Margin
7,981
1.62%
Candidates
13 contested · winner CPM- 1SHIVAJI PATNAIKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,14,42943.5%
- 2MANMATH NATH DASIndian National Congress · INC2,06,44841.9%
- 3SANTI DAS (W)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP37,5417.6%
- 4BANKA BEHARY DASJanahitha Paksha · JP20,3214.1%
- 5BAURI BANDHU KHATIIndependent · IND3,9380.8%
- 6BAIKUNTHA BISWALOVP · OVP2,2010.4%
- 7CHANDRI SEKHAR MOHANTYIndependent · IND1,8640.4%
- 8KAMALAKSHYA KANUNGOLKD · LKD1,7900.4%
- 9KULAMANI SAHUIndependent · IND1,7650.4%
- 10SOMANATH SAHUIndependent · IND1,0010.2%
- 11SIDHESWAR BAHUBALENDRAIndependent · IND7040.1%
- 12BANSIDHAR SWAINIndependent · IND6820.1%
- 13BHABAGRAHI MISHRAIndependent · IND4550.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −24.0%
- CPM share
- 58.5% → 43.5%
- INC share
- 32.9% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- 57.6% → 48.5%