Constituency
65. Sonepur
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2019
OD-SONEPUR
BJD 48.8%won by 12.7%BJP 36.1%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.5% to 12.7%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.9% of the vote between them, up from 74.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.1% to 81.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,50,384
Turnout
81.1%
Valid votes
2,03,103
Margin
25,726
12.67%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJD- 1Niranjan PujariBiju Janata Dal · BJD99,07348.8%
- 2Ashok Kumar PujariBharatiya Janata Party · BJP73,34736.1%
- 3Chittaranjan MishraIndian National Congress · INC23,32611.5%
- 4Surubabu NandaBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,5771.3%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA1,5970.8%
- 6Nabakrushna DantaIndependent · IND1,3150.6%
- 7Umesh Chandra PadhanCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,0140.5%
- 8Tankadhara KhamariIndependent · IND8540.4%
Since 2014
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–BJP swing
- −15.8%
- BJD share
- 51.7% → 48.8%
- BJP share
- 23.2% → 36.1%
- Turnout
- 78.0% → 81.1%