Constituency result · Lok Sabha · 1971

Bhanjanagar

Parliamentary constituency 285 (GEN) · Odisha

State boardOdisha 1971

[01]Result · 1971

#285 · GEN

Poll date1 Mar 1971

Contestants3Candidate lines

Electors5,60,369

Votes polled2,55,729

Turnout45.6%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerDutikrishna PandaCommunist Party of India1,02,95640.3% of votes

MARGIN2,858 votes · 1.1 pp1,02,956 − 1,00,098

Runner-upBijaya Nanda Pattanayak Utkal Congress1,00,09839.1% of votes

CPI 50.7% of top-two votesUC 49.3%

All candidates 3

01 Dutikrishna PandaCPI1,02,956 40.3%
02 Bijaya Nanda PattanayakUC1,00,098 39.1%
03 Sarat Chandra MohapatraSWA43,529 17.0%

Turnout 45.6%

Electors by sex are not recorded for this contest.

Sex ratiofemales per 1,000 malesNot recorded
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
State median turnoutmedian of 20 seats, 197143.4%
ReconciliationΣ 3 candidates = 2,46,583Residual 9,146

Seat history 1971–1971

1971
1.1 pp
Dutikrishna PandaCommunist Party of India

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 1.1 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Third-placed SWA polled 43,529 votes, 15× the 2,858-vote margin.
43,529 ÷ 2,858 = 15.2
The top two polled 79.4% of votes; the other 1 candidate 17.0% between them.
(1,02,956 + 1,00,098) ÷ 2,55,729 = 79.4% · 43,529 ÷ 2,55,729 = 17.0%
Turnout of 45.6% was 2.2 pp above the state's median seat (43.4%).
45.6 − 43.4 = +2.2

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 3 candidate lines2,46,583
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled2,55,729
Checkneither convention holdsResidual 9,146

Candidate votes miss the published total by 9,146, with NOTA counted inside or outside it.

Contest resultElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1971 · Odisha · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates3 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Reconciliation failed

State median turnoutComputed from 20 seats on the Odisha Lok Sabha 1971 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database