State board · Lok Sabha

Odisha Lok Sabha 1977

Results board · 21 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateOdisha

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 21

Electors

1.26Cr

On the roll

Votes polled

56.04L

44.3% of electors

Median turnout

42.2%

Median of 21 seats

BLD lead

Above majority · 15 − 11

[01]Seat matrix

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

Majority · 11 of 21BLD 15 · +4 above majority

BLD 1571.4% Bharatiya Lok Dal

INC 419.0% Indian National Congress

CPI(M) 14.8% Communist Party of India (Marxist)

IND 14.8% Independents

State level, as published

BLD 51.8%15 seats · 71.4%

INC 38.2%4 seats · 19.0%

CPI 3.1%0 seats

CPI(M) 2.0%1 seat · 4.8%

JKD 0.4%0 seats

Others 4.5%1 seat · 4.8%

Vote share not published

IND1 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

BLD converted 51.8% of votes into 71.4% of seats, a seat premium of 19.6 pp.
15 ÷ 21 = 71.4% · 71.4 − 51.8 = +19.6
INC polled 38.2% of votes, the 2nd-highest share, but won 4 seats (19.0%).
4 ÷ 21 = 19.0% · 19.0 − 38.2 = −19.2
Phulbani was decided by 2,643 votes, the closest of 21 seats; Kendrapara had the widest margin, 1,44,376.
min / max of margin over 21 seats with a recorded margin
In ST-reserved seats BLD won 4 of 5 (80.0%), against 71.4% of all seats.
4 ÷ 5 = 80.0% · 15 ÷ 21 = 71.4%
Turnout ran from 26.0% in Koraput to 63.0% in Kendrapara; the median seat polled 42.2%.
min / median / max over 21 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

21 of 21 seats carry a turnout

< 50% 1571.4% of seats

50–60 419.0% of seats

60–70 29.5% of seats

70–80 00.0% of seats

≥ 80% 00.0% of seats

LowestKoraput26.0%
HighestKendrapara63.0%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

21 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, Odisha Lok Sabha 1977, all 21 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
01	Mayurbhanj	Chandra Mohan Sinha	Bharatiya Lok Dal	2,15,006	11,349	5.3	38.5
02	BalasoreST	Samarendra Kundu	Bharatiya Lok Dal	3,50,771	59,461	17.0	57.0
03	Bhadrak	Bairagi Jena	Bharatiya Lok Dal	3,36,054	71,577	21.3	54.7
04	JajpurST	Rama Chandra Mallick	Bharatiya Lok Dal	3,16,767	49,660	15.7	51.8
05	KendraparaSTWIDEST	Bijayananda Pattanayak	Bharatiya Lok Dal	3,96,224	1,44,376	36.4	63.0
06	Cuttack	Sarat Kumar Kar	Bharatiya Lok Dal	3,30,152	60,402	18.3	52.9
07	JagatsinghpurSC	Pradyumna Kishore Bal	Bharatiya Lok Dal	4,10,182	1,09,951	26.8	62.7
08	PuriSC	Padmacharan Samantasinhar	Bharatiya Lok Dal	3,00,554	70,541	23.5	48.2
09	Bhubaneswar	Sivaji Patnaik	Communist Party of India (Marxist)	2,46,013	5,469	2.2	40.4
10	Aska	Rama Chandra Rath	Indian National Congress	3,01,729	3,777	1.3	45.8
11	Berhampur	Jagannath Rao R.	Indian National Congress	2,14,711	50,089	23.3	35.4
12	KoraputST	Giridhar Gomango	Indian National Congress	1,51,124	14,429	9.5	26.0
13	Nowrangpur	Khagapati Pradhani	Indian National Congress	1,44,408	3,031	2.1	27.6
14	Kalahandi	Pratap Keshari Deo	Independent	1,93,140	53,261	27.6	35.6
15	PhulbaniCLOSEST	Sribatcha Digal	Bharatiya Lok Dal	2,09,232	2,643	1.3	33.0
16	BolangirSC	Ainthu Sahoo	Bharatiya Lok Dal	2,32,260	57,724	24.9	40.6
17	Sambalpur	Gananath Pradhan	Bharatiya Lok Dal	3,14,774	56,234	17.9	47.7
18	Deogarh	Pabitra Mohan Pradhan	Bharatiya Lok Dal	2,58,428	10,042	3.9	42.2
19	Dhenkanal	Debendra Satpathy	Bharatiya Lok Dal	2,61,634	44,660	17.1	44.3
20	Sundargarh	Debananda Amat	Bharatiya Lok Dal	2,25,858	44,553	19.7	40.0
21	KeonjharST	Govinda Munda	Bharatiya Lok Dal	1,94,821	47,745	24.5	34.7

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 1,44,376 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1977 · Odisha · 21 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