Constituency
324. Bolangir
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 2014
IN-BOLANGIR
BJD 38.7%won by 8.9%BJP 29.8%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 9.0% to 8.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.8% — 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 68.6% between them, down from 76.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 4.8% to 74.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
15,63,025
Turnout
74.9%
Valid votes
11,70,405
Margin
1,04,299
8.91%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJD- 1KALIKESH NARAYAN SINGH DEOBiju Janata Dal · BJD4,53,51938.7%
- 2SANGEETA KUMARI SINGH DEOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,49,22029.8%
- 3SARAT PATTNAYAKIndian National Congress · INC2,77,61623.7%
- 4SARASWATI NANDAAam Aadmi Party · AAP24,5152.1%
- 5None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA21,0431.8%
- 6ACHUTANANDA NAGA · A14,6261.2%
- 7RANA NAGBahujan Samaj Party · BSP11,5131.0%
- 8NABA KRUSHNA DANTAIndependent · IND9,9150.8%
- 9SHANKAR KUMAR PATRAAOP · AOP8,4380.7%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–BJP swing
- −14.6%
- BJD share
- 42.5% → 38.7%
- BJP share
- 18.9% → 29.8%
- Turnout
- 70.1% → 74.9%