Constituency
123. Bhanjanagar
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2014
OD-BHANJANAGAR
BJD 56.2%won by 21.6%INC 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 62.0% to 21.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 20.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
2,13,217
Turnout
68.8%
Valid votes
1,46,711
Margin
31,701
21.61%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJD- 1BIKRAM KESHARI ARUKHABiju Janata Dal · BJD82,46756.2%
- 2BINAYAK TRIPATHYIndian National Congress · INC50,76634.6%
- 3PRADEEP KUMAR SAHUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,8345.3%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,8071.9%
- 5MADHUSUDAN PADHIIndependent · IND1,5391.0%
- 6PURNA CHANDRA NAIKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2980.9%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–INC swing
- −40.4%
- BJD share
- 76.5% → 56.2%
- INC share
- 14.5% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → 68.8%