Constituency
65. Sonepur
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2014
OD-SONEPUR
BJD 51.7%won by 28.5%BJP 23.2%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.7% to 28.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.9% of the vote between them, up from 68.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
2,31,885
Turnout
78.0%
Valid votes
1,80,900
Margin
51,485
28.46%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJD- 1NIRANJAN PUJARIBiju Janata Dal · BJD93,53451.7%
- 2PRAMOD KUMAR MAHAPATRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP42,04923.2%
- 3SARBESWAR PUROHITIndian National Congress · INC35,79519.8%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,7561.5%
- 5BIMALA NAIKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,4081.3%
- 6AMARESWAR MISHRAAOP · AOP1,6860.9%
- 7GIRIDHARI KHURAAPOI · APOI1,4800.8%
- 8NANDIGHOSH MEHERSKD · SKD1,1920.7%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–BJP swing
- +10.7%
- BJD share
- 43.1% → 51.7%
- BJP share
- 25.4% → 23.2%
- Turnout
- — → 78.0%