Bolangir Assembly constituency

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

Bolangir is a constituency of the Vidhan Sabha in Odisha, India. This seats falls under Bolangir District of Odisha State in India. Bolangir seat is a unreserved seat of Odisha Legislative Assembly.^[2] This constituency includes Balangir block and Deogaon block.^[3][4]

Bolangir
Constituency No. 68 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency Details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Balangir
LS Constituency	Bolangir
Established	1951
Total electors	210,736^[1]^[a]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Narasingha Mishra
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2019

Elected Members

Vote share of Winning candidates ^[5]
2019			41.32%
2014			39.83%
2009			40.70%
2004			56.26%
2000			47.91%
1995			49.59%
1990			54.51%
1985			68.85%
1980			36.29%
1977			51.47%

Sixteen elections were held between 1951 and 2019. Elected members from the Bolangir constituency are:^[6][7]

Year	Name^[8]	Party
1951	Nanda Kishore Mishra		Ganatantra Parishad
1957
1961	Chandra Sekhar Singh
1967	Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo		Swatantra Party
1971
1974
1977	Muralidhar Guru		Janata Party
1980	Md. Mujafar Hussain Khan		Indian National Congress
1985			Indian National Congress
1990	Ananga Udaya Singh Deo		Janata Dal
1995
2000			Biju Janata Dal
2004
2009
2014	Narasingha Mishra		Indian National Congress
2019

Election Results

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Bolangir ^[9][10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Narasingha Mishra	71598	41.32	1.49
	BJD	Arkesh Narayan Singh Deo	66257	38.24	6.31
	BJP	Ananta Kumar Dash	28924	16.69	5.98
	BSP	Drona Kumbhar	1506	0.87
	AAP	Ashish Pande	1411	0.81
	PBI	Kapila Kumbhar	632	0.36
	API	Nilakantha Nag	934	0.54
	Independent	Dwija Dalpati	649	0.37
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority			5,341	3.08
Turnout
	INC hold		Swing	1.49

In 2014 election, Indian National Congress candidate Narasingha Mishra defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Ananga Udaya Singh Deo by a margin of 12,254 votes.^[11]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Bolangir ^[12][13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Narasingha Mishra	61,730	39.83	12.09
	BJD	Anag Uday Singhdeo	49,476	31.93	8.77
	BJP	Basudev Pati	35,130	22.67	2.90
	BSP	Karam Chand Bej	1,397	0.9
	AAP	Sangita Majhi	1,086	0.7
	Independent	Sandeep Kumar Bag	1,074	0.69
	Independent	Gopal Chandra Hota	951	0.61
	NOTA	None of the above	2,161	1.39
Majority			12,254	7.91
Turnout			1,54,975	73.54	8.97
Registered electors			2,10,736
	INC gain from BJD

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Ananga Udaya Singh Deo defeated Congress candidate Laxman Kumar Meher by a margin of 16,866 votes.^[14]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Bolangir^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Ananga Udaya Singhdeo	52,948	40.70	- 15.56
	INC	Laxman Kumar Meher	36,082	27.74	-
	BJP	Dr. Basudev Pati	33,258	25.57	-
	BSP	Aman Nag	2,799	2.15	-
	Independent	Sushil Kumar Nanda	1,529	1.18	-
	SAMO	Sandeep Kumar Bag	1,390	1.07	-
	Kosal Kranti Dal	Rabindra Kumar Panigrahi	1,084	0.83	-
	Independent	Biswambar sahu	997	0.77	-
Majority			16,866	12.97^[b]	-
Turnout			1,30,281	64.57	-
	BJD hold		Swing	4.07 ^[c]

Notes

1. as on 1 January 2014
2. %of total valid votes
3. 2004 Voter turnout was 60.50%

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