Constituency
95. Mahanga
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2014
OD-MAHANGA
BJD 49.3%won by 15.4%IND 34.0%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.5% to 15.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 34.0% — it did not contest here in 2009.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.3% between them, down from 95.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,36,778
Turnout
76.6%
Valid votes
1,81,462
Margin
27,874
15.36%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJD- 1PRATAP JENABiju Janata Dal · BJD89,53149.3%
- 2SARADA PRASAD PADHANIndependent · IND61,65734.0%
- 3SK. MATLUB ALIIndian National Congress · INC22,29712.3%
- 4SAMIR KUMAR SAMALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,5722.0%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA1,0740.6%
- 6RAKHI AGARWALCommunist Party of India · CPI8550.5%
- 7MIHIR RANJAN JENAIndependent · IND8100.4%
- 8BHASKAR CHANDRA SWAINAam Aadmi Party · AAP6360.4%
- 9LAXMIDHAR JENABahujan Samaj Party · BSP4430.2%
- 10AMAR NAYAKOJM · OJM3430.2%
- 11LAXMIPRIYA SAHOOSKD · SKD2440.1%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–IND swing
- −41.5%
- BJD share
- 56.8% → 49.3%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 34.0%
- Turnout
- — → 76.6%