Bijepur Assembly constituency

This article is about the assembly constituency. For its eponymous town, see Bijepur.

Bijepur is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Odisha. This constituency includes Bijepur block, Gaisilat block and Barpali block.^[1]

Bijepur
Constituency No. 2 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Bargarh
LS constituency	Bargarh
Established	1961
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Rita Sahu
Party	Biju Janata Dal
Elected year	2019

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates^[2]
2019 (Bye-Election)			73.86%
2019			59.78%
2018 (Bye-Election)			56.61%
2014			32.15%
2009			40.91%
2004			53.97%
2000			53.99%
1995			35.33%
1990			63.54%
1985			58.46%
1980			48.71%
1977			63.37%

17 elections held during 1961 to 2019 including By-Elections. List of members elected from this constituency are:^[3]

• 2019 (By-Election): Rita Sahu (BJD)^[4]
• 2018 (By-Election): Rita Sahu (BJD)
• 2014: Subal Sahu (Congress)
• 2009: Subal Sahu (Congress)
• 2004: Subal Sahu (Congress)
• 2000: Ashok Kumar Panigrahy (BJD)
• 1995: Ripunath Setha (Congress)
• 1991: (By-Election): Kishorimani Singh (Janata Dal)
• 1990: Nikunja Bihari Singh (Janata Dal)
• 1985: Nikunja Bihari Singh (Janata Dal)
• 1980: Rajib Lochan Hota (Congress)
• 1977: Nityananda Gadatia (Janata Party)
• 1974: Gananatha Pradhan (Utkal Congress)
• 1971: Tribikram Malik, (Congress (J))
• 1967: Mohan Nag (Congress)
• 1961: Mohan Nag (Congress)

Year	Member	Party
2019	Naveen Patnaik^[5]		Biju Janata Dal

Election results

2019 By-election

In 2019 By-Election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Rita Sahu defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Sanat Kumar Gartia by a margin of 97,990 votes.

By-election, 2019: Bijepur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Rita Sahu	135,957	73.86	14.08
	BJP	Sanat Kumar Gartia	37,967	20.62	8.29
	INC	Dillip Kumar Panda	5,873	3.2	4.55
	NOTA	None of the above	1,982	1.07	0.16
Majority			97,990	53.23
Turnout			1,84,059	79.32
	BJD hold		Swing

2019

In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Naveen Patnaik defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Sanat Kumar Gartia by a margin of 57,122 votes. Later Naveen Patnaik has resigned as MLA from the Bijepur Assembly Constituency.

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Bijepur^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Naveen Patnaik	1,10,604	59.78	27.90
	BJP	Sanat Kumar Gartia	53,482	28.91	10.81
	INC	Ripunath Seth	14,344	7.75	24.4
	BSP	Ashok Kalet	1,200	0.65	0.21
	Independent	Birendra Kumar Bag	887	0.48	-
	Independent	Purna Chandra Panda	2,832	1.53	-
	NOTA	None of the above	1,675	0.91	-
Majority			57,122	30.87
Turnout			1,85,024	79.69
	BJD gain from INC		Swing

2014

In 2014 election, Indian National Congress candidate Subal Sahu defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Prasanna Acharya by a margin of 458 votes.^[7]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Bijepur^[8][9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Subal Sahu	53,290	32.15	8.76
	BJD	Prasanna Acharya	52,832	31.88	2.57
	BJP	Jayshankar Pattanaik	30,001	18.1	4.08
	Independent	Ashok Kumar Panigrahi	18,232	11.0	-
	OJM	Kishor Daphadar	2,931	1.77	-
	AAP	Suresh Tripathy	1,659	1.0	-
	API	Purna Chandra Paik	1,561	0.94	-
	BSP	Jayram Bag	1,429	0.86	3.2
	AITC	Rohita Kumar Sahu	935	0.56	-
	RPI (D)	Kumar Nanda	838	0.51	-
	AOP	Sachidananda Patra	754	0.45	-
	NOTA	None of the above	1,285	0.78	-
Majority			458	0.28	6.17
Turnout			1,65,747	80.29	10.06
Registered electors			2,06,436
	INC hold

2009

In 2009 election Indian National Congress candidate Subal Sahu, defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Prabhat Aditya Mishra by 18,066 votes.^[10]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Bijepur^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Subal Sahu	56,864	40.91	-
	BJD	Prabhat Aditya Mishra	47,893	34.45	-
	BJP	Mohammad Rafique	19,493	14.02	-
	BSP	Milan Mahattam	5,644	4.06	-
	Independent	Sakuntala Mahapatra	5,124	3.69	-
	KOKD	Narendra Kumar Hota	2,257	1.62	-
	JD(U)	Kuber Jal Yadav	1,738	1.25	-
Majority			8,971	6.45
Turnout			1,39,018	70.23
	INC hold

References

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