Constituency
70. Kantabanji
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2019
OD-KANTABANJI
INC 33.6%won by 0.1%BJP 33.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 0.1%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 29.4% to 33.6% of the vote here (+4.2%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 67.1% of the vote between them, up from 61.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.9% to 68.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,79,867
Turnout
68.3%
Valid votes
1,91,234
Margin
128
0.07%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1SANTOSH SINGH SALUJAIndian National Congress · INC64,24633.6%
- 2LAXMAN BAGBharatiya Janata Party · BJP64,11833.5%
- 3AJAYA KUMAR DASBiju Janata Dal · BJD54,52728.5%
- 4NOTANOTA · NOTA2,4531.3%
- 5MAYA BAGIndependent · IND2,2731.2%
- 6SURATHA BEHERAIndependent · IND2,0281.1%
- 7CHAMPA NAGBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,5890.8%
Since 2014
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- −11.6%
- INC share
- 29.4% → 33.6%
- BJP share
- 17.7% → 33.5%
- Turnout
- 72.3% → 68.3%