Constituency
18. Rairakhol
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2009
OD-RAIRAKHOL
BJD 35.1%won by 9.1%INC 26.0%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.5% to 9.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Multi-cornered5 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
1,07,552
Margin
9,764
9.08%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJD- 1PRASANNA ACHARYABiju Janata Dal · BJD37,71835.1%
- 2ASSAF ALI KHANIndian National Congress · INC27,95426.0%
- 3SARAT CHANDRA SAHUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,21717.9%
- 4GEETANJALI PRADHANIndependent · IND9,0948.5%
- 5CHITTARANJAN PRADHANIndependent · IND6,9606.5%
- 6TARANI BHOIIndependent · IND1,4421.3%
- 7HAMID PRASAD LUHAIndependent · IND1,4271.3%
- 8PRAHALLADA PRUSTIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,0981.0%
- 9APURNA BAGHRPI · RPI9540.9%
- 10UPENDRA MOHAPATRAKOKD · KOKD9020.8%
- 11PRAMOD KUMAR SAHOOSAMO · SAMO7860.7%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–INC swing
- −3.5%
- BJD share
- 38.5% → 35.1%
- INC share
- 26.0% → 26.0%
- Turnout
- — → —