Constituency
42. Simulia
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2014
OD-SIMULIA
BJD 42.2%won by 5.1%INC 37.1%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.2% to 5.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.4% between them, down from 87.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,13,346
Turnout
73.1%
Valid votes
1,55,906
Margin
7,937
5.09%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJD- 1JYOTI PRAKASH PANIGRAHIBiju Janata Dal · BJD65,85442.2%
- 2PADMALOCHAN PANDAIndian National Congress · INC57,91737.1%
- 3SHASHI KUMAR SAHOOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP28,01118.0%
- 4SANTOSH BISWALCommunist Party of India · CPI1,2840.8%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA7690.5%
- 6GAJENDRA JENABahujan Samaj Party · BSP6930.4%
- 7KAMALESH KUMAR DASAOP · AOP5110.3%
- 8SRIDHAR TRIPATHYOJM · OJM4400.3%
- 9RATIKANTA NAYAKAam Aadmi Party · AAP4270.3%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–INC swing
- −3.1%
- BJD share
- 47.9% → 42.2%
- INC share
- 39.6% → 37.1%
- Turnout
- — → 73.1%