Constituency
50. Bhubaneswar
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2000
OD-BHUBANESWAR
BJP 79.0%won by 63.7%INC 15.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 63.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 30.9% to 79.0% of the vote here (+48.1%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Indian National Congress (INC).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.2% of the vote between them, up from 82.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,48,372
Margin
94,555
63.73%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJP- 1BISWABHUSAN HARICHANDANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,17,15079.0%
- 2DR. JAGANNATH MOHAPATRAIndian National Congress · INC22,59515.2%
- 3RAMESH KUMAR SAHOONationalist Congress Party · NCP1,8441.2%
- 4HAREKRISHNA DASIndependent · IND1,1140.8%
- 5SOUBHAGYA CHANDRA NAIKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1100.7%
- 6SATRUGHNA BEHERASamajwadi Party · SP9940.7%
- 7JAGDISH RAI PURIIndependent · IND8080.5%
- 8SARALA SWAINBOP · BOP6070.4%
- 9SANATAN BEHERARashtriya Janata Dal · RJD5690.4%
- 10SOMANATH ROUTRAYIndependent · IND5630.4%
- 11SASANKA SEKHAR SAHUShiv Sena · SHS5100.3%
- 12BINOD SAHOOIndependent · IND5080.3%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +47.7%
- BJP share
- 30.9% → 79.0%
- INC share
- 14.9% → 15.2%
- Turnout
- — → —