Constituency
121. Pallahara
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2000
OD-PALLAHARA
BJP 36.8%won by 9.0%IND 27.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 9.0%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 6.9% to 36.8% of the vote here (+29.9%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 27.8% — it polled just 0.8% in 1995.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.6% between them, down from 90.6% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,09,619
Margin
9,879
9.01%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1DHARMENDRA PRADHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP40,36136.8%
- 2DR. NRUSINGHA CHARAN SAHOOIndependent · IND30,48227.8%
- 3DURGA PRASAD SAHOOIndian National Congress · INC22,98621.0%
- 4RABI NARAYAN SAHOOJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS6,5816.0%
- 5BUTA SINGHIndependent · IND5,0224.6%
- 6RABINARAYAN PRADHANNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,8791.7%
- 7RUTURAJA MAHANTASamajwadi Party · SP1,8001.6%
- 8GANESWAR SAHOOSJPR · SJPR5080.5%
Since 1995
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–IND swing
- +2.9%
- BJP share
- 6.9% → 36.8%
- IND share
- 0.8% → 27.8%
- Turnout
- — → —