Constituency
72. Chatrapur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2000
OD-CHATRAPUR
BJP 42.6%won by 5.6%IND 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 5.6%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 2.7% to 42.6% of the vote here (+39.9%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 37.0% — it polled just 0.8% in 1995.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.6% of the vote between them, up from 68.8% — 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
1,01,828
Margin
5,656
5.55%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1RAMA CHANDRA PANDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP43,37042.6%
- 2NAGIREDLLA NARAYANIndependent · IND37,71437.0%
- 3DANIEL DASIndian National Congress · INC15,46015.2%
- 4BISWANATH SAHUCommunist Party of India · CPI3,0423.0%
- 5BRUNDABAN NAYAKAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,1581.1%
- 6PARSURAM PANDAIndependent · IND6820.7%
- 7NATABAR BEHERABahujan Samaj Party · BSP2780.3%
- 8MISS. ELIZABETH LIMAIndependent · IND1240.1%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–IND swing
- +3.7%
- BJP share
- 2.7% → 42.6%
- IND share
- 0.8% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- — → —