Constituency
118. Dhenkanal
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2000
OD-DHENKANAL
BJP 34.6%won by 4.7%IND 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 4.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 4.0% to 34.6% of the vote here (+30.5%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 29.9% — it polled just 0.8% in 1995.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.5% between them, down from 91.7% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
86,053
Margin
4,048
4.70%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1KRUSHNA CHANDRA PATRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP29,76234.6%
- 2SUDHIR KUMAR SAMALIndependent · IND25,71429.9%
- 3NABIN CHANDRA NARAYAN DASIndian National Congress · INC19,87123.1%
- 4BATAKRISHNA PATTANAIKIndependent · IND6,4787.5%
- 5BENUDHAR SAHOOSamajwadi Party · SP2,4612.9%
- 6SADASHIV MOHAPATRAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC7820.9%
- 7MADHUSUDAN NAIKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5850.7%
- 8BIKASH KUMAR NANDAShiv Sena · SHS4000.5%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–IND swing
- +1.5%
- BJP share
- 4.0% → 34.6%
- IND share
- 0.8% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —