Constituency
124. Polasara
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2019
OD-POLASARA
BJD 50.4%won by 8.0%BJP 42.4%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.3% to 8.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.8% of the vote between them, up from 80.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.1% to 66.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,38,576
Turnout
66.9%
Valid votes
1,59,689
Margin
12,739
7.98%
Candidates
10 contested · winner BJD- 1SRIKANTA SAHUBiju Janata Dal · BJD80,46350.4%
- 2GOKULA NANDA MALLIKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP67,72442.4%
- 3HARI CHARAN SWAINIndian National Congress · INC3,4932.2%
- 4KAILASH CHANDRA PATROBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,3051.4%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA1,5651.0%
- 6PITABASA PRADHANIndependent · IND1,0120.6%
- 7GOLAP SAHUIndependent · IND8800.6%
- 8SHIBAPRASAD BISHOYIIndependent · IND8580.5%
- 9KEDAR NATH MAHARANAIndependent · IND7160.4%
- 10SAMARJIT MAHANTYAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB6730.4%
Since 2014
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–BJP swing
- −26.8%
- BJD share
- 48.1% → 50.4%
- BJP share
- 13.3% → 42.4%
- Turnout
- 64.8% → 66.9%