Constituency result · Lok Sabha · 1962

Puri

Parliamentary constituency 308 (GEN) · Odisha

State boardOdisha 1962

[01]Result · 1962

#308 · GEN

Poll date19 Mar 1962

Contestants2Candidate lines

Electors4,75,128

Votes polled1,45,148

Turnout30.6%

NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013

WinnerBibudhendra MisraIndian National Congress83,84857.8% of votes

MARGIN29,565 votes · 20.4 pp83,848 − 54,283

Runner-upPanigrahi Chintamani Communist Party of India54,28337.4% of votes

INC 60.7% of top-two votesCPI 39.3%

All candidates 2

01 Bibudhendra MisraINC83,848 57.8%
02 Panigrahi ChintamaniCPI54,283 37.4%

Turnout 30.6%

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 19 seats, 196225.8%
ReconciliationΣ 2 candidates = 1,38,131Residual 7,017

Seat history 1967–1962

1967
1.5 pp
K. PradhaniIndian National Congress
1962
20.4 pp
Bibudhendra MisraIndian National Congress

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 20.4 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

Turnout of 30.6% was 4.8 pp above the state's median seat (25.8%).
30.6 − 25.8 = +4.8

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votesΣ 2 candidate lines1,38,131
NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
Published totalVotes polled1,45,148
Checkneither convention holdsResidual 7,017

Candidate votes miss the published total by 7,017, 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