Constituency
327. Keonjhar
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-KEONJHAR
JD 44.1%won by 1.7%INC 42.3%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 27.6% to 1.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 16.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.4% between them, down from 94.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.3% to 46.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,12,382
Turnout
46.3%
Valid votes
4,22,771
Margin
7,394
1.75%
Candidates
9 contested · winner JD- 1GOVINDA CHANDRA MUNDAJanata Dal · JD1,86,31744.1%
- 2KUMAR MAJHIIndian National Congress · INC1,78,92342.3%
- 3UPENDRA NATH NAYAKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP38,7009.2%
- 4PRAHLADA NAIKOVP · OVP4,6491.1%
- 5BISWANATH CHATARIndependent · IND3,9320.9%
- 6LATIKA SINGH (W)Janahitha Paksha · JP3,8410.9%
- 7RABI MAJHIIndependent · IND3,4600.8%
- 8NAKULA CHANDRA PADHANDDP · DDP2,4640.6%
- 9MAHENDRA NAGIndependent · IND4850.1%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–INC swing
- −25.8%
- JD share
- 60.9% → 44.1%
- INC share
- 33.3% → 42.3%
- Turnout
- 50.7% → 46.3%