Constituency
327. Kandhamal
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 2014
IN-KANDHAMAL
BJD 29.8%won by 3.5%BJD 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.3% to 3.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 14.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 56.0% between them, down from 67.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.0% to 73.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,43,602
Turnout
73.4%
Valid votes
16,04,289
Margin
56,071
3.50%
Candidates
16 contested · winner BJD- 1P.R.SinghBiju Janata Dal · BJD4,77,52929.8%
- 2HEMENDRA CHANDRA SINGHBiju Janata Dal · BJD4,21,45826.3%
- 3HARIHAR KARANIndian National Congress · INC2,40,44115.0%
- 4R.M.RayBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,78,66111.1%
- 5SUKANTA KUMAR PANIGRAHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,08,7446.8%
- 6Abhimanyu BeheraIndian National Congress · INC90,5365.6%
- 7LAMBODAR KANHARIndependent · IND20,4721.3%
- 8None of the AboveNOTA · NOTA14,1590.9%
- 9RAM NAYAKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP11,0800.7%
- 10NARENDRA MOHANTYAam Aadmi Party · AAP9,5220.6%
- 11BILASINI NAYAKAOP · AOP7,7410.5%
- 12BASANTA KUMAR PRADHANIndependent · IND5,7980.4%
- 13B.K.GoudaIndependent · IND5,3330.3%
- 14Kulamani UrmaPVP · PVP5,1140.3%
- 15Jalandhar KanharIndependent · IND4,2000.3%
- 16M.Z.AhamedICP · ICP3,5010.2%
Since 2009
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–BJD swing
- 0.0%
- BJD share
- 44.6% → 29.8%
- BJD share
- 44.6% → 29.8%
- Turnout
- 66.4% → 73.4%