Constituency
49. Balipatna
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2004
OD-BALIPATNA
BJD 49.3%won by 11.5%INC 37.9%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.1% to 11.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.2% between them, down from 92.8% — the field split more ways.
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
1,10,053
Margin
12,605
11.45%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJD- 1SASHI BHUSAN BEHERABiju Janata Dal · BJD54,29349.3%
- 2BENUDHAR BHOIIndian National Congress · INC41,68837.9%
- 3NARENDRA NATH NAYAKIndependent · IND11,56310.5%
- 4CHITA RANJAN MALLICKLJNSP · LJNSP1,6211.5%
- 5LAXMIDHAR BHOIRPI · RPI8880.8%
Since 2000
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–INC swing
- −0.7%
- BJD share
- 52.4% → 49.3%
- INC share
- 40.3% → 37.9%
- Turnout
- — → —