Constituency
85. Kantamal
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2019
OD-KANTAMAL
BJD 33.0%won by 2.8%BJP 30.2%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 22.0% to 2.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
1,63,579
Turnout
79.8%
Valid votes
1,30,465
Margin
3,650
2.80%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJD- 1Mahidhar RanaBiju Janata Dal · BJD43,09933.0%
- 2Kanhai Charan DangaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP39,44930.2%
- 3Sesha Kumar MeherIndependent · IND28,37021.7%
- 4Prasanta Kumar SahuIndian National Congress · INC13,16610.1%
- 5Sudhansu DangaIndependent · IND3,0352.3%
- 6Manoranjan KuanarHND · HND2,2551.7%
- 7NOTANOTA · NOTA1,0910.8%
Since 2014
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–BJP swing
- −31.7%
- BJD share
- 42.6% → 33.0%
- BJP share
- 8.1% → 30.2%
- Turnout
- 80.7% → 79.8%