Constituency
123. Bhanjanagar
Community mirrorOdisha Assembly Election, 2009
OD-BHANJANAGAR
BJD 76.5%won by 62.0%INC 14.5%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.4% to 62.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 2004 and 2009 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.0% between them, down from 100.0% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatBiju Janata Dal won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
1,18,317
Margin
73,367
62.01%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJD- 1BIKRAM KESHARI ARUKHABiju Janata Dal · BJD90,51576.5%
- 2DEBI PRASAD BISHOYIIndian National Congress · INC17,14814.5%
- 3SIVANAND TRIPATHYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,2285.3%
- 4SUNIL KUMAR PANDAIndependent · IND1,5561.3%
- 5SANJAYA KUMAR TRIPATHYSAMO · SAMO1,2401.0%
- 6GOPAL BISOYIRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP8430.7%
- 7PANCHANAN DASIndependent · IND7870.7%
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
- +56.6%
- BJD share
- 52.7% → 76.5%
- INC share
- 47.3% → 14.5%
- Turnout
- — → —