Constituency
145. Pottangi
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2014
OD-POTTANGI
BJD 38.1%won by 8.8%INC 29.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Biju Janata Dal (BJD), which now leads by 8.8%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.4% between them, down from 77.7% — the field split more ways.
- NOTANOTA drew 4.1% of the vote.
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,73,130
Turnout
71.0%
Valid votes
1,22,928
Margin
10,764
8.76%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJD- 1PRAFULLA KUMAR PANGIBiju Janata Dal · BJD46,83938.1%
- 2RAMA CHANDRA KADAMIndian National Congress · INC36,07529.3%
- 3KRUSHNA CHANDRA JANIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,4017.6%
- 4BHAGABAN PETIAIndependent · IND7,5476.1%
- 5ASHOK KUMAR ULAKABahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,7255.5%
- 6G. RADHASAMO · SAMO6,0925.0%
- 7None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA4,9954.1%
- 8JAYARAM BHOIOJM · OJM3,4472.8%
- 9SNEHAPATRO SANTASKD · SKD1,8071.5%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJDflipped
- BJD–INC swing
- +14.2%
- BJD share
- 36.1% → 38.1%
- INC share
- 41.6% → 29.3%
- Turnout
- — → 71.0%