Constituency
50. Bhubaneswar
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1995
OD-BHUBANESWAR
JD 51.2%won by 20.4%BJP 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 65.2% to 20.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 28.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerBharatiya Janata Party (BJP) finished second with 30.9% — it did not contest here in 1990.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.1% between them, down from 95.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,79,988
Margin
36,679
20.38%
Candidates
17 contested · winner JD- 1BIJU PATNAIKJanata Dal · JD92,23951.2%
- 2SOUMYARANJAN PATNAIKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP55,56030.9%
- 3DR. LALIT MOHAN MOHANTYIndian National Congress · INC26,74514.9%
- 4HEMANTA GAJENDRASJPR · SJPR1,7501.0%
- 5BIBHUPADA APATJanahitha Paksha · JP8660.5%
- 6SANATAN BEHERABahujan Samaj Party · BSP6760.4%
- 7KHAGESWAR BEHURAIndependent · IND4990.3%
- 8RABINDRA MISHRAIndependent · IND2860.2%
- 9KANHAI CHARAN NAYAKIndependent · IND2050.1%
- 10GOVINDA CHANDRA SAMALIndependent · IND2030.1%
- 11PRAKASH SAHOOIndependent · IND1790.1%
- 12BHRAMARBAR MOHARANAPSSS · PSSS1760.1%
- 13SOMNATH ROUT RAYIndependent · IND1520.1%
- 14SUDARSAN MOHAPATRAIndependent · IND1440.1%
- 15SANJIB PATTNAIKIndependent · IND1240.1%
- 16D. ASHOKA KUMAR SAMANTRAYIndependent · IND980.1%
- 17ASHOK KUMAR MOHAPATRAIndependent · IND860.0%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–BJP swing
- −59.8%
- JD share
- 80.2% → 51.2%
- BJP share
- 0.0% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —