Constituency
126. Khalikote
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2014
OD-KHALIKOTE
BJD 62.7%won by 45.5%INC 17.2%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 46.5% to 45.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.9% between them, down from 89.6% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,97,711
Turnout
63.6%
Valid votes
1,25,745
Margin
57,194
45.48%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJD- 1PURNA CHANDRA SETHYBiju Janata Dal · BJD78,84562.7%
- 2PANDABA JALLIIndian National Congress · INC21,65117.2%
- 3SARAT CHANDRA BEHERABharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,38212.2%
- 4SIMANCHAL BEHERACommunist Party of India · CPI4,9153.9%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA2,3971.9%
- 6SAROJ KUMAR BEHERAAam Aadmi Party · AAP1,3871.1%
- 7RANJAN DANGUAKS · KS1,1680.9%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–INC swing
- −1.0%
- BJD share
- 68.1% → 62.7%
- INC share
- 21.5% → 17.2%
- Turnout
- — → 63.6%