Constituency
4. Rairangpur
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2004
OD-RAIRANGPUR
BJP 32.7%won by 0.0%JMM 32.6%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.2% to 0.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 42 votes (0.05%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
89,689
Margin
42
0.05%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1DROUPADI MURMUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP29,29532.7%
- 2RAM CHANDRA MURMUJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM29,25332.6%
- 3LAXMAN MAJHIIndian National Congress · INC22,55125.1%
- 4SHANKAR PURTYIndependent · IND2,7193.0%
- 5SUKANTI PINGUAIndependent · IND2,5112.8%
- 6MAJHIARAM TUDUAJSU · AJSU2,0362.3%
- 7BRAJA MOHAN HANSDAHIndependent · IND1,3241.5%
Since 2000
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–JMM swing
- −19.8%
- BJP share
- 34.1% → 32.7%
- JMM share
- 14.3% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- — → —