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Bhanjanagar Assembly constituency
Bhanjanagar is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Ganjam district.[1] Area of this constituency includes Bhanjanagar, Bhanjanagar block and Jagannathaprasad block.[2][3]
| Bhanjanagar | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 123 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Odisha |
| District | Ganjam |
| LS constituency | Kandhamal |
| Established | 1957 |
| Total electors | 197,443 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 16th Odisha Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Biju Janata Dal |
| Elected year | 2019 |
Elected Members Edit
14 elections held during 1957 to 2014. List of members elected from this constituency are:[5]
- 1990: (66): Ramakrushna Gauda (JD)
- 1985: (66): Umakanta Mishra (Congress)
- 1980: (66): Somanath Rath (Congress-I)
- 1977: (66): Jami Subarao Prusty (Janata)
- 1974: (66): Somanath Rath (Congress)
- 1971: (62): Somanath Rath (Jana Congress)
- 1967: (62): Dinabandhu Behera (Congress)
- 1961: (25): Maguni Charana Pradhan (Congress)
- 1957: (20): Suma Nayak (Communist) and Gobinda Pradhan (Communist)
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Bikram Keshari Arukha | Janata Dal | |
| 2000 | Biju Janata Dal | ||
| 2004 | |||
| 2009 | |||
| 2014[6] | |||
| 2019 | |||
2019 Election Result Edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJD | Bikram Keshari Arukha | 76879 | 48.56 | ||
| BJP | Pradyumna Kumar Nayak | 67776 | 42.81 | ||
| INC | Sanjay Kumar Tripathy | 7069 | 4.47 | ||
| BSP | Narasingha Gouda | 2915 | 1.84 | ||
| CPI(ML) Red Star | Purna Chandra Pradhan | 1170 | 0.74 | ||
| Independent | Birendra Kumar Gouda | 1052 | 0.66 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 1441 | 0.91 | ||
| Majority | 9103 | ||||
| Turnout | 158302 | ||||
| Bikram Keshari Arukha gain from Pradyumna Kumar Nayak | Swing | ||||
2014 Election Result Edit
In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Bikram Keshari Arukha defeated Indian National Congress candidate Binayak Tripathy by a margin of 31,730 votes.[8]
| BJD | Bikram Keshari Arukha | 82,467 | 56.21 | -20.29 | |
| INC | Binayak Tripathy | 50,766 | 34.6 | 20.11 | |
| BJP | Pradeep Kumar Sahu | 7,834 | 5.34 | 0.08 | |
| Independent | Madhusudan Padhi | 1,539 | 1.05 | ||
| BSP | Purna Chandra Naik | 1,298 | 0.88 | ||
| NOTA | None of the above | 2,807 | 1.91 | - | |
| Majority | 31,701 | 21.6 | -40.41 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnout | 1,46,711 | 69.87 | 9.94 | ||
| Registered electors | 2,09,979 | ||||
| BJD hold | |||||
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
2009 Election Result Edit
In last 2009 election Biju Janata Dal candidate Bikrama Keshari Arukh, defeated Indian National Congress candidate Debi Prasad Bisoyi by 73,367 votes.[11]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJD | Bikrama Keshari Arukha | 90,515 | 76.50 | - | |
| INC | Debi Prasad Bisoyi | 17,148 | 14.49 | - | |
| BJP | Shibananda Tripathy | 6,228 | 5.26 | - | |
| Independent | Sunil Kumar Panda | 1,556 | 1.32 | - | |
| SAMO | Sanjaya Kumar Tripathy | 1,240 | 1.05 | - | |
| RSP | Gopal Bisoyi | 843 | 0.71 | - | |
| Independent | Panchanan Das | 786 | 1.67 | - | |
| Majority | 73,367 | 62.01* | - | ||
| Turnout | 1,18,328 | 59.93 | - | ||
*: %of total valid votes
References Edit
- ^ "Bhanjanagar Assembly Election 2009, Orissa". empoweringindia.org. Retrieved 25 May 2013.
Constituency: Bhanjanagar (123) District : Ganjam
- ^ Assembly Constituencies and their Extent
- ^ Seats of Odisha
- ^ "66 - Bhanjanagar Assembly Constituency". eci.nic.in. 2006. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
List Of Winning Candidates
- ^ (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2014 to the Legislative Assembly of Orissa". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
- ^ "List of Contesting Candidates(Phase-II) (AC)" (PDF). ceoorissa.nic.in. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Odisha. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ . Leadtech.in. Archived from the original on 18 August 2014. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
- ^ "Odisha - Bhanjanagar". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
- ^ "Orissa Assembly Election 2014 Constituency: Bhanjanagar (123)". EmpoweringIndia.org. Retrieved 18 June 2014.
- ^ . leadtech.in. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 19 December 2013.
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- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2009 to the LEgislative Assembly of Orissa". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 October 2021.