Constituency
42. Simulia
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2009
OD-SIMULIA
BJD 47.9%won by 8.2%INC 39.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Biju Janata Dal (BJD), which now leads by 8.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.5% between them, down from 97.6% — the field split more ways.
- 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
1,32,595
Margin
10,927
8.24%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJD- 1PARSURAM PANIGRAHIBiju Janata Dal · BJD63,47947.9%
- 2PADMALOCHAN PANDAIndian National Congress · INC52,55239.6%
- 3MAHENDRA PRASAD JENAIndependent · IND8,0476.1%
- 4TANUJA PANDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,0233.8%
- 5GOPAL KRISHNA DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,9691.5%
- 6MAMATANJALI TRIPATHYSamajwadi Party · SP1,0190.8%
- 7RABINDRA KUMAR MOHANTYSAMO · SAMO5060.4%
Since 2004
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJDflipped
- BJD–INC swing
- +11.2%
- BJD share
- 47.3% → 47.9%
- INC share
- 50.3% → 39.6%
- Turnout
- — → —