Constituency
101. Kesinga
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2004
OD-KESINGA
BJP 44.8%won by 0.5%INC 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 9.4% to 0.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.2% of the vote between them, up from 77.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 593 votes (0.55%) — among the closest results anywhere.
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
1,08,195
Margin
593
0.55%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1DHANESWAR MAJHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP48,52544.8%
- 2BHUPINDER SINGHIndian National Congress · INC47,93244.3%
- 3PRAMOD KUMAR BHOIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,1733.9%
- 4BASANTA KUMAR SANDHAIndependent · IND2,6142.4%
- 5UCHHABA SAHUIndependent · IND2,4812.3%
- 6JAGAT PADHANCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,4702.3%
Since 2000
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −8.8%
- BJP share
- 43.4% → 44.8%
- INC share
- 34.0% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- — → —