Constituency
142. Kotpad
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2014
OD-KOTPAD
INC 48.1%won by 21.2%BJD 26.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.2% to 21.2%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.0% of the vote between them, up from 65.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- NOTANOTA drew 3.3% of the vote.
- 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
1,80,567
Turnout
81.8%
Valid votes
1,47,698
Margin
31,321
21.21%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1CHANDRA SEKHAR MAJHIIndian National Congress · INC71,01848.1%
- 2ASHOK KUMAR PANGIBiju Janata Dal · BJD39,69726.9%
- 3PADMANAV MAJHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP20,69914.0%
- 4None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4,8633.3%
- 5SURJYAMANI NAYAKCommunist Party of India · CPI3,2142.2%
- 6GOLOK BIHARI MAJHIOJM · OJM2,7771.9%
- 7TRILOCHAN DISARIRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP2,7271.8%
- 8BASU NAYAKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,7031.8%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJD swing
- +12.0%
- INC share
- 37.4% → 48.1%
- BJD share
- 28.2% → 26.9%
- Turnout
- — → 81.8%