Koraput Assembly constituency

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

Koraput is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Koraput district, Odisha, India.^[2]

Koraput
Constituency No. 144 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Koraput
LS constituency	Koraput
Established	1951
Total electors	1,66,404^[1]^[a]
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Raghuram Padal
Party	Biju Janata Dal
Elected year	2019

The constituency includes Koraput, Sunabeda Lamptaput block, 15 Gram panchayats (Badasuku, Deoghati, Kendar, Kerenga, Lankaput, Mahadeiput, Manbar, Mastiput, Padmapur and Umuri) of Koraput block and 8 Gram panchayats (Bodaput, Boipariguda, Chandrapada, Chipakur, Dasamanthapur, Doraguda, Kenduguda, Kollar and Mahuli) of Boipariguda block.^[3][4]

Elected members

Vote share of winning candidates^[5]
2014			40.65%
2009			34.97%
2004			47.34%
2000			55.80%
1995			57.03%
1990			55.74%
1985			54.24%
1980			47.54%
1977			66.50%

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

• 2014: (144): Krushna Chandra Sagaria Congress
• 2009: (144): Raghuram Padal(BJD)
• 2004: (85): Tara Prasad Bahinipati (Congress)
• 2000: (85): Tara Prasad Bahinipati (Congress)
• 1995: (85): Gupta Prasad Das (Congress)
• 1990: (85): Harish Chandra Buxipatra (Janata Dal)
• 1985: (85): Nrusingha Nanda Brahma (Congress)
• 1980: (85): Nrusingha Nanda Brahma (Congress-I)
• 1977: (85): Harish Chandra Buxipatra (Janata Party)
• 1974: (85): Harish Chandra Buxipatra (Utkal Congress)
• 1961: (8): Toyaka Sangana (Congress)
• 1957: (6): Lachhaman Pujhari (Ganatantra Parishad)
• 1951: (5): Ganga Muduli (Ganatantra Parishad)

Year	Member	Party
2019	Raghuram Padal^[8]^[9]		Biju Janata Dal

Election results

2019

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Koraput^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Raghu Ram Padal	48,171	35.19%
	INC	Krushna Kuldip	35.19%	30.59%
	BJP	Tripurary Gorada	33994	24.83%
	NOTA	None of the above	3235	2.36%
	BSP	Bhagirathi Patnia	2489	1.82%
	Independent	Naba Kishore Bagh	1890	1.38%
	SUCI(C)	Rama Barik	1814	1.33%
	AIFB	Dhanurjaya Hantal	1715	1.25%
	Independent	Khagapati Khosla	1711	1.25%
Majority
Turnout				71.86%
	BJD gain from INC		Swing

2014

In 2014 election, Indian National Congress candidate Krushna Chandra Sagaria defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Raghuram Machha by a margin of 4,976 votes.^[11]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Koraput^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Krushna Chandra Sagaria	50,672	40.65	6.85
	BJD	Raghuram Machha	45,696	36.66	1.69
	BJP	Jairam Garada	13,665	10.96	1.58
	BSP	Balabhadra Mandi	2,091	1.68	-4.0
	API	Rekhit Kuldip	1,185	0.95
	SUCI(C)	Ram Barik	1,182	0.95
	AAP	Mangaldana Khosla	1,120	0.9
	AOP	Manjulata Khemundu	1,075	0.86
	CPI(ML) Red Star	Bibek Ranjan Sethi	962	0.77
	Independent	Khagapati Khosla	942	0.76
	SAMO	Kasti Turuk	870	0.7
	Independent	Purna Chandra Pangi	861	0.69
	Independent	Rohidas Nayak	844	0.68
	Indian Citizens Party	Dhanurjya Hantala	719	0.58
	SKD	Dama Suna	574	0.46
	NOTA	None of the above	2,204	1.77	-
Majority			4,976	3.99
Turnout			1,24,662	74.92
Registered electors			1,66,404
	INC gain from BJD

2009

In the 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Raghuram Padal defeated Indian National Congress candidate Krishna Chandra Sagaria by a margin of 1,114 votes.^[13]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Koraput^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Raghuram Padal	33,235	34.97	-3.34
	INC	Krishna Chandra Sagaria	32,121	33.80	-13.54
	BJP	Jayaram Garda	8,917	9.38	-
	BSP	Somanath Khora	5,398	5.68	-
	Independent	Ananda Chandra Patika	4,117	4.33	-
	Independent	Surendra Patnia	3,197	3.36	-
	SAMO	Siba Shankar Khemundu	1,685	1.77	-
	SP	Sridhar Gantha	1,544	1.62	-
	CPI(ML)L	Bibek Ranjan Sethi	1,414	1.49	-
	Independent	Iswar Chandra Suna	1,346	1.42	-
	RSP	Rama Chandra Benia	1,035	1.09	-
	Independetnt	Nrupendra Narayan Bagh	1,034	1.09	-
Majority			1,114	1.17^[b]	-
Turnout			95,083	58.77	-3.79^[c]
	BJD gain from INC

Notes

1. as on 1 January 2014
2. % of total valid votes
3. 2004 voter turnout was 62.56%

References

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