Constituency
124. Melchhamunda
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2004
OD-MELCHHAMUNDA
BJP 39.0%won by 0.2%INC 38.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 0.2%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 17.9% to 39.0% of the vote here (+21.1%).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 271 votes (0.24%) — 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
1,12,410
Margin
271
0.24%
Candidates
4 contested · winner BJP- 1MOHAMMAD RAFIQUEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP43,81939.0%
- 2PRAKASH CHANDRA DEBTAIndian National Congress · INC43,54838.7%
- 3MURARI PRASAD MISHRAIndependent · IND20,71018.4%
- 4JIKRIYA KUMAR BAGBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,3333.9%
Since 2000
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +27.8%
- BJP share
- 17.9% → 39.0%
- INC share
- 45.5% → 38.7%
- Turnout
- — → —