Constituency
112. Sonepur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 1995
OD-SONEPUR
JD 42.3%won by 9.9%INC 32.4%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.1% to 9.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,04,112
Margin
10,301
9.89%
Candidates
10 contested · winner JD- 1KUNDURU KUSHALJanata Dal · JD43,99342.3%
- 2GOPINATH HARPALIndian National Congress · INC33,69232.4%
- 3ACHYUTANANDA BISWALIndependent · IND10,3109.9%
- 4SURESH KUMAR KUSHALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,7973.6%
- 5DEBARAJ SETHIndependent · IND3,7843.6%
- 6JAYASINGH NAIKIndependent · IND2,3802.3%
- 7PRAKASH HARPALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,3002.2%
- 8JAGADISH SUNAIndependent · IND1,7011.6%
- 9DARASINGH KUMBHARSJPR · SJPR1,1621.1%
- 10PREMRAJ BARIKIndependent · IND9931.0%
Since 1990
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–INC swing
- −16.2%
- JD share
- 49.6% → 42.3%
- INC share
- 23.5% → 32.4%
- Turnout
- — → —