Constituency
318. Keonjhar
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 2014
IN-KEONJHAR
BJD 40.1%won by 14.5%BJP 25.6%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 14.2% to 14.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.5% — 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).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.7% between them, down from 73.1% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.0% to 80.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,46,683
Turnout
80.5%
Valid votes
10,83,869
Margin
1,57,317
14.51%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJD- 1SAKUNTALA LAGURIBiju Janata Dal · BJD4,34,47140.1%
- 2ANANTA NAYAKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,77,15425.6%
- 3MADHABA SARDARIndian National Congress · INC1,90,53117.6%
- 4BASUDEB NAIKIndependent · IND1,01,9999.4%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA26,0652.4%
- 6SUJIT KUMAR LUGUNIndependent · IND16,4201.5%
- 7SUDARSHAN LOHARRAIM · RAIM16,2991.5%
- 8BISHNUPRIYA NAIKO · O12,2361.1%
- 9JAGAT MOHAN NAIKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8,6940.8%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–BJP swing
- −10.7%
- BJD share
- 43.6% → 40.1%
- BJP share
- 18.4% → 25.6%
- Turnout
- 70.5% → 80.5%