Constituency result · Lok Sabha · 1962

Kalahandi

Parliamentary constituency 301 (GEN) · Odisha

State boardOdisha 1962

[01]Result · 1962

#301 · GEN

Poll date19 Mar 1962

Contestants2Candidate lines

Electors3,73,402

Votes polled1,00,468

Turnout26.9%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerPratap Kessari DeoGanatantra Parishad65,97465.7% of votes

MARGIN40,833 votes · 40.6 pp65,974 − 25,141

Runner-upSuresh Chandra Behera Indian National Congress25,14125.0% of votes

GP 72.4% of top-two votesINC 27.6%

All candidates 2

01 Pratap Kessari DeoGP65,974 65.7%
02 Suresh Chandra BeheraINC25,141 25.0%

Turnout 26.9%

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 19 seats, 196225.8%
ReconciliationΣ 2 candidates = 91,115Residual 9,353

Seat history 1967–1962

1967
32.4 pp
S. DwivedyPraja Socialist Party
1962
40.6 pp
Pratap Kessari DeoGanatantra Parishad

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 40.6 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Turnout of 26.9% was 1.1 pp above the state's median seat (25.8%).
26.9 − 25.8 = +1.1

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 2 candidate lines91,115
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,00,468
Checkneither convention holdsResidual 9,353

Candidate votes miss the published total by 9,353, with NOTA counted inside or outside it.

Contest resultElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1962 · Odisha · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates2 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Reconciliation failed

State median turnoutComputed from 19 seats on the Odisha Lok Sabha 1962 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database