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Constituency result · Lok Sabha · 1971

Sambalpur

Parliamentary constituency 292 (GEN) · Odisha

State boardOdisha 1971

[01]Result · 1971

#292 · GEN
Poll date1 Mar 1971
Contestants6Candidate lines
Electors5,72,779
Votes polled2,07,475
Turnout36.2%
NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013
WinnerBanamali BabuIndian National Congress79,78838.5% of votes
MARGIN42,707 votes · 20.6 pp79,788 − 37,081
Runner-upPrasanna Kumar Panda Communist Party of India37,08117.9% of votes
INC 68.3% of top-two votesCPI 31.7%

All candidates 6

  1. 01 Banamali BabuINC79,788 38.5%
  2. 02 Prasanna Kumar PandaCPI37,081 17.9%
  3. 03 Kishen PattanayakSSP32,041 15.4%
  4. 04 Lalit Mohan DasUC26,055 12.6%
  5. 05 Shraddhakkar SupakarINCO11,062 5.3%
  6. 06 Sriniwas AgrawalBJS9,930 4.8%

Turnout 36.2%

025507510036.2%TURNOUT◦ state median 43.4%

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 6 candidates = 1,95,957Residual 11,518

Seat history 1971–1971

  1. 1971
    20.6 pp
    Banamali BabuIndian National Congress

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 20.6 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. The top two polled 56.3% of votes; the other 4 candidates 38.1% between them.

    (79,788 + 37,081) ÷ 2,07,475 = 56.3% · 79,088 ÷ 2,07,475 = 38.1%

  2. Turnout of 36.2% was 7.2 pp below the state's median seat (43.4%).

    36.2 − 43.4 = −7.2

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed
  • Candidate votesΣ 6 candidate lines1,95,957
  • NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
  • Published totalVotes polled2,07,475
  • Checkneither convention holdsResidual 11,518

Candidate votes miss the published total by 11,518, 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

Candidates6 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

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