Constituency
51. Dharmasala
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2014
OD-DHARMASALA
BJD 68.6%won by 53.9%INC 14.7%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.6% to 53.9%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.3% between them, down from 90.9% — 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
1,95,224
Turnout
81.6%
Valid votes
1,59,251
Margin
85,786
53.87%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJD- 1PRANAB KUMAR BALABANTARAYBiju Janata Dal · BJD1,09,24168.6%
- 2SRINATH MISHRAIndian National Congress · INC23,45514.7%
- 3RAMESH CHANDRA PARIDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP19,94012.5%
- 4AKSHAYA KUMAR DASSUCI · SUCI2,0441.3%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,1850.7%
- 6NIRMAL KUMAR ROUTIndependent · IND1,1080.7%
- 7CHANDRAMANI NAYAKSKD · SKD8650.5%
- 8GOBINDA SAHOOBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8380.5%
- 9PRAVAKAR NAYAKOJM · OJM5750.4%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–INC swing
- +28.2%
- BJD share
- 58.3% → 68.6%
- INC share
- 32.6% → 14.7%
- Turnout
- — → 81.6%