Constituency
13. Basta
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2004
OD-BASTA
BJD 55.8%won by 26.4%INC 29.4%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 15.3% to 26.4%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.2% between them, down from 91.4% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatBiju Janata Dal won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
1,36,692
Margin
36,110
26.42%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJD- 1RAGHUNATH MOHANTYBiju Janata Dal · BJD76,31655.8%
- 2SANJIV GIRIIndian National Congress · INC40,20629.4%
- 3DEBI PRASANNA CHANDIndependent · IND17,12812.5%
- 4PADMA LOCHAN DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1390.8%
- 5MUNSI ABDUL MAHERAJ ALLISamajwadi Party · SP1,0040.7%
- 6BRAHMANANDA MOHAPATRAIndependent · IND8990.7%
Since 2000
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–INC swing
- +11.1%
- BJD share
- 53.4% → 55.8%
- INC share
- 38.1% → 29.4%
- Turnout
- — → —