Constituency
137. Paralakhemundi
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2019
OD-PARALAKHEMUNDI
BJP 35.9%won by 10.5%IND 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 10.5%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 5.1% to 35.9% of the vote here (+30.8%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 25.4% — it polled just 1.0% in 2014.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 61.3% between them, down from 89.3% — the field split more ways.
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Electorate
2,10,531
Turnout
69.3%
Valid votes
1,45,927
Margin
15,335
10.51%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJP- 1K. NARAYANA RAOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP52,41535.9%
- 2TIRUPATI PANIGRAHIIndependent · IND37,08025.4%
- 3KALYANI GAJAPATHIBiju Janata Dal · BJD26,64518.3%
- 4K. SURYA RAOIndian National Congress · INC24,04016.5%
- 5NOTANOTA · NOTA1,9441.3%
- 6KEDAR SABARIndependent · IND1,5721.1%
- 7GOURI SANKAR MAHANANDIABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1330.8%
- 8Sunil Kumar PatnaikS · S1,0980.8%
Since 2014
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–IND swing
- +6.4%
- BJP share
- 5.1% → 35.9%
- IND share
- 1.0% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- 69.4% → 69.3%