Constituency
36. Ersama
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2004
OD-ERSAMA
BJD 52.4%won by 13.4%INC 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 35.1% to 13.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.5% of the vote between them, up from 77.2% — 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
1,51,818
Margin
20,305
13.37%
Candidates
4 contested · winner BJD- 1DR. DAMODAR ROUTBiju Janata Dal · BJD79,59052.4%
- 2RAMESH CHANDRA SAMANTARAYIndian National Congress · INC59,28539.1%
- 3GOURHARI NAYAKCommunist Party of India · CPI10,5767.0%
- 4MANOJ PATRABahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,3671.6%
Since 2000
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–INC swing
- −21.7%
- BJD share
- 56.1% → 52.4%
- INC share
- 21.1% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- — → —