Constituency
42. Simulia
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2019
OD-SIMULIA
BJD 51.3%won by 8.5%BJP 42.8%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 5.1% to 8.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.2% of the vote between them, up from 79.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,41,813
Turnout
72.5%
Valid votes
1,75,430
Margin
14,959
8.53%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJD- 1JYOTI PRAKASH PANIGRAHIBiju Janata Dal · BJD90,08351.3%
- 2PADMALOCHAN PANDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP75,12442.8%
- 3ANANTA PRASAD SETHIIndian National Congress · INC8,3534.8%
- 4NOTANOTA · NOTA8020.5%
- 5PRUTHWIRAJ DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7280.4%
- 6GANGADHAR DASPUJP · PUJP3400.2%
Since 2014
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–BJP swing
- −15.7%
- BJD share
- 42.2% → 51.3%
- BJP share
- 18.0% → 42.8%
- Turnout
- 73.1% → 72.5%