State board · Lok Sabha

Odisha Lok Sabha 1962

Results board · 20 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateOdisha

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 20

Electors

87.86L

On the roll

Votes polled

20.70L

Summed over 19 of 20 seats

Median turnout

25.8%

Median of 19 seats

INC lead

Above majority · 14 − 11

[01]Seat matrix

20 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won

Majority · 11 of 20INC 14 · +3 above majority

INC 1470.0% Indian National Congress

GP 420.0% Ganatantra Parishad

PSP 15.0% Praja Socialist Party

SOCIAL 15.0% Socialist

State level, as published

INC 55.5%14 seats · 70.0%

GP 17.4%4 seats · 20.0%

PSP 15.5%1 seat · 5.0%

CPI 5.1%0 seats

SOC 2.7%Seats unmatched

Others 3.8%Seat count not derivable

Vote share not published

SOCIAL1 seat

The published shares sum to 100.0%, so these parties' votes sit inside Others.

Alliances

Not in the source for this election.

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

INC converted 55.5% of votes into 70.0% of seats, a seat premium of 14.5 pp.
14 ÷ 20 = 70.0% · 70.0 − 55.5 = +14.5
PSP polled 15.5% of votes, the 3rd-highest share, but won 1 seat (5.0%).
1 ÷ 20 = 5.0% · 5.0 − 15.5 = −10.5
Kendrapara was decided by 66 votes, the closest of 19 seats; Dhenkanal had the widest margin, 52,288.
min / max of margin over 19 seats with a recorded margin
1 seat was won by a margin under 1%; PSP won 1 of them.
count(margin % < 1.0) = 1 of 19 · PSP 1
Turnout ran from 12.0% in Bhanjanagar to 42.5% in Kendrapara; the median seat polled 25.8%.
min / median / max over 19 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

19 of 20 seats carry a turnout

< 50% 19100.0% of seats

50–60 00.0% of seats

60–70 00.0% of seats

70–80 00.0% of seats

≥ 80% 00.0% of seats

LowestBhanjanagar12.0%
HighestKendrapara42.5%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

20 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, Odisha Lok Sabha 1962, all 20 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
296	Nowrangpur	Rachakonda Jaganath Rao	Indian National Congress	62,814	4,939	7.9	15.0
297	KoraputST	Ulaka Ramachandra	Indian National Congress	56,155	26,249	46.7	12.2
298	Chatrapur	Sarma Ananta Tripathy	Indian National Congress	82,677	25,215	30.5	20.0
299	BhanjanagarSC	Mohan Nayak	Indian National Congress	48,650	34,124	70.1	12.0
300	PhulbaniST	Rajendra Kohor	Ganatantra Parishad	55,598	3,275	5.9	13.9
301	Kalahandi	Pratap Kessari Deo	Ganatantra Parishad	1,00,468	40,833	40.6	26.9
302	BolangirSC	Mahanand Hrushikesh	Ganatantra Parishad	92,662	18,019	19.4	22.0
303	Sambalpur	Kisan Pattanayak	Socialist	93,275	2,368	2.5	21.5
304	SundergarhST	Yagnyanarayan Singha	Ganatantra Parishad	1,22,864	6,075	4.9	25.8
305	Keonjhar	Laxmi Narayan Bhanja Deo	Indian National Congress	65,978	10,282	15.6	17.8
306	DhenkanalWIDEST	Baishnab Charan Patnaik	Indian National Congress	1,35,057	52,288	38.7	30.7
307	Angul	Harekrushna Mahtab	Indian National Congress	not recorded	not recorded	not recorded	not recorded
308	Puri	Bibudhendra Misra	Indian National Congress	1,45,148	29,565	20.4	30.6
309	Bhubaneswar	Raja Purna Chandra Deo Bhanj	Indian National Congress	1,35,778	37,494	27.6	29.8
310	Cuttack	Nityanand Kanungo	Indian National Congress	1,62,723	23,953	14.7	33.6
311	JajpurSC	Ramachandra Mallick	Indian National Congress	1,35,346	35,697	26.4	28.4
312	KendraparaCLOSEST	Surendranath Dwivedy	Praja Socialist Party	2,07,852	66	0.0	42.5
313	BhadrakSC	Kanhu Charan Jena	Indian National Congress	1,30,783	48,297	36.9	27.1
314	Balasore	Gokulananda Mahanty	Indian National Congress	1,58,368	29,559	18.7	37.2
315	MayurbhanjST	Maheswar Naik	Indian National Congress	77,946	7,279	9.3	17.8

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 52,288 votes“not recorded”: the source carries no figure for that seat

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1962 · Odisha · 20 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesState-level summary published with the same results · retrieval date not recorded in the results database