Kantabanji Assembly constituency

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

Kantabanji is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Balangir district, Odisha.^[2]

Kantabanji
Constituency No. 70 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Balangir
LS constituency	Bolangir
Established	1961
Total electors	2,41,337^[1]^[a]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Santosh Singh Saluja
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2019

This constituency includes Kantabanji, Turekela block, Bangomunda block and Muribahal block.^[3][4]

In 2019, the Kantabanji Legislative Assembly Indian National Congress won by 128 votes.^[5] Since 2019 the, MLA from the Kantabanji Assembly Constituency is Santosh Singh Saluja INC, who won the seat in Odisha state assembly elections 2019, Previous MLAs from this seat were Haji Mohammad Ayyub Khanof the Biju Janata Dal, who won the seat in 2009 Odisha state assembly elections. Previous MLAs from this seat were independent candidate Haji Mohammad Ayub Khan in 2004,^[6] Prasanna Pal of JD in 1990, independent candidate Chaitanya Pradhan in 1985, Prasanna Kumar Pal representing INC (I) in 1980 and representing INC in 1977.

Kantabanji is part of Bolangir (Lok Sabha constituency).^[7]

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates^[8]
2019			33.60%
2014			31.65%
2009			43.24%
2004			40.68%
2000			29.24%
1995			44.80%
1990			46.25%
1985			46.68%
1980			54.84%
1977			42.33%

Fourteen elections were held between 1961 and 2019. Elected members from the Kantabanji constituency are:^[9][10]

• 2014: (70): Ayub Khan (Biju Janata Dal)
• 2009: (70): Santosh Singh Saluja (Congress)
• 2004: (107): Haji Md. Ayub Khan (Independent)
• 2000: (107): Santosh Singh Saluja (Congress)
• 1995: (107): Santosh Singh Saluja (Congress)
• 1990: (107): Prasanna Kumar Pal (Janata Dal)
• 1985: (107): Chaitanya Pradhan (Independent)
• 1980: (107): Prasanna Kumar Pal (Congress-I)
• 1977: (107): Prasanna Kumar Pal (Congress)
• 1974: (107): Ramprasad Misra (Swatantra)
• 1971: (108): Achyutanand Mahanand (Swatantra)
• 1967: (108): Lokanath Rai (Swatantra)
• 1961: (41): Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo (Ganatantra Parishad)

Year	Member	Party
2019	Santosh Singh Saluja^[11]		Indian National Congress

Election results

2019

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Kantabanji^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Santosh Singh Saluja	64,246	33.60	4.17
	BJP	Laxman Bag	64,118	33.53	15.80
	BJD	Ajaya Kumar Das	54,527	28.51	3.14
	BSP	Champa Nag	1,589	0.83
	Independent	Maya Bag	2,273	1.19
	Independent	Suratha Behera	2,028	1.06
	NOTA	None of the above	2,453	1.28
Majority			128	0.07
Turnout
	INC gain from BJD		Swing

2014 Election Result

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Ayub Khan defeated Indian National Congress candidate Santosh Singh Saluja by a margin of 3,868 votes.^[13]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Kantabanji^[14][15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Ayub Khan	55,252	31.65	-9.05
	INC	Santosh Singh Saluja	51,384	29.43	-13.81
	BJP	Lachhaman Bag	30,961	17.73	6.58
	AAP	Ajay Kumar Das	20,333	11.65
	Independent	Bhola Panika	3,253	1.86
	CPI	Premananda Putel	2,676	1.53
	BSP	Sushil Kumbhar	1,784	1.02	-0.26
	Independent	Santosh Deep	1,269	0.73
	AOP	Satyendra Suna	1,206	0.69
	BMP	Jagadish Singh Bhoi	967	0.55
	Independent	Bishnu Prasad Jued	727	0.42
	ICP	Tankadhara Saa	698	0.4
	Independent	Alexander Senapati	694	0.4
	Independent	Srikanta Mahananda	580	0.33
	Independent	Nishikanta Rana	536	0.31
	Independent	Nandalal Tandi	533	0.31
	NOTA	None of the above	1,729	0.99	-
Majority			3,868	2.22	-1.45
Turnout			1,74,582	72.34	3.43
Registered electors			2,41,337
	BJD gain from INC

Summary of results of the 2009 Election

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Kantabanji^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Santosh Singh Saluja	62,495	43.24	11.19
	BJD	Haji Md. Ayub Khan	57,191	40.70	- 15.56
	BJP	Ajay Kumar Das	16,117	11.15	-
	Independent	Suratha Behera	2,075	1.44	-
	BSP	Nanda Kumar Mahananda	1,848	1.28	-
	SAMO	Ashok Kumar Singh Deo	1,719	1.19	-
	Kosal Kranti Dal	Jogendra Bachha	1,087	0.75	-
	Independent	Gupteswar Benia	1,052	0.73	-
	Independent	Gopal Bhoi	962	0.67	-
Majority			5,304	3.67^[b]	-
Turnout			1,44,549	68.91	-
	INC gain from Independent		Swing	3.55^[c]

Notes

1. as on 1 January 2014
2. % of total valid votes
3. 2004 Voter turnout was 65.36%

References

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