Constituency
55. Dhenkanal
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2019
OD-DHENKANAL
BJD 46.9%won by 10.8%BJP 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.9% to 10.8%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
2,54,742
Turnout
74.9%
Valid votes
1,90,810
Margin
20,640
10.82%
Candidates
12 contested · winner BJD- 1Sudhir Kumar SamalBiju Janata Dal · BJD89,53646.9%
- 2Krushna Chandra PatraBharatiya Janata Party · BJP68,89636.1%
- 3Nabin NandaIndian National Congress · INC24,78813.0%
- 4Ganeswar PradhanBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,7921.5%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA1,2650.7%
- 6Akshaya RoutS · S7670.4%
- 7Patitapaban MishraAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB5330.3%
- 8Meghanada NandaIndependent · IND4910.3%
- 9Ashish Kumar MishraAam Aadmi Party · AAP4630.2%
- 10Bikash NayakHND · HND4530.2%
- 11Gudia SharmaIndependent · IND4310.2%
- 12Bhajaman RoutSUCIC · SUCIC3950.2%
Since 2014
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–BJP swing
- +8.9%
- BJD share
- 39.4% → 46.9%
- BJP share
- 37.5% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- 75.0% → 74.9%