Brajarajnagar is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Jharsuguda district, Odisha.[1] Area of this constituency includes Brajarajnagar, Belpahar, Lakhanpur block and Jharsuguda block.[2][3]
| Brajarajnagar | |
|---|---|
| Constituency No. 6 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly | |
| Constituency details | |
| Country | India |
| Region | East India |
| State | Odisha |
| District | Jharsuguda |
| LS constituency | Bargarh |
| Established | 1961 |
| Total electors | 189,012 |
| Reservation | None |
| Member of Legislative Assembly | |
| 16th Odisha Legislative Assembly | |
| Incumbent | |
| Party | Biju Janata Dal |
| Elected year | 2022 |
Elected members edit
Fourteen elections held during 1961 to 2019. List of members elected from Brajarajnagar constituency are:[5]
- 2022 By-Election: Alka Mohanty (BJD)[6]
- 2014: Radharani Panda (BJP)
- 2009: Anup Kumar Sai (Congress)
- 2004: Anup Kumar Sai (Congress)
- 2000: Anup Kumar Sai (Congress)
- 1995: Prasanna Kumar Panda (CPI)
- 1990: Prasanna Kumar Panda (CPI)
- 1985: Prasanna Kumar Panda (CPI)
- 1980: Upendra Dixit (Congress)-I
- 1977: Upendra Dixit (Congress)
- 1974: Prasanna Kumar Panda (CPI)
- 1971: Upendra Dixit (Orissa Jana Congress),
- 1967: Prasanna Kumar Panda (Communist)
- 1961: Prasanna Kumar Panda (Communist)
| Year | Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Kishore Kumar Mohanty[7][8] | Biju Janata Dal | |
Election results edit
2022 edit
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJD | Alka Mohanty | 93,953 | 61.25 |  12.55
| |
| INC | Kishore Chandra Patel | 27,831 | 18.14 | - | |
| BJP | Radharani Panda | 22,630 | 14.75 |  26.88
| |
| CPI | Ramesh Kumar Tripathy | 3,105 | 2.02 | 3.66
| |
| Independent | Aditya Padhan | 1,884 | 1.23 | - | |
| NOTA | None of the Above | 4,000[a] | 2.60 | - | |
| Majority | 66,122 | ||||
| Turnout | 1,54,048 | 71.62 | |||
| BJD hold | Swing | ||||
2019 election result edit
In 2019 election Biju Janata Dal candidate Kishore Kumar Mohanty, defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Radharani Panda by 11,634 votes.
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJD | Kishore Kumar Mohanty | 80,152 | 48.7 | 23.25
| |
| BJP | Radharani Panda | 68,153 | 41.63 | 14.79
| |
| CPI | Ramesh Tripathi | 9,350 | 5.68 | 2.28
| |
| BSP | Sitaram Rohidas | 2,018 | 1.23 | 0.56
| |
| OPD | Rajani Bhue | 941 | 0.57 | - | |
| PSP (Lohia) | Subas Behera | 488 | 0.3 | - | |
| SKD | Haraprasad Meher | 612 | 0.37 | - | |
| Independent | Ajay Prasad Mandal | 506 | 0.31 | - | |
| Independent | Mithila Chhuria | 573 | 0.35 | - | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,429 | 0.87 | - | |
| Majority | 11634 | 7.05 | |||
| Turnout | 164587 | 77.9 | |||
| BJD gain from BJP | |||||
2014 election result edit
In 2014 election Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Radharani Panda, defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Anup Kumar Sai by 6,790 votes.[10]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJP | Radharani Panda | 50,736 | 26.84 | 15.12
| |
| BJD | Anup Kumar Sai | 43,946 | 23.25 | - | |
| INC | Kishore Chandra Patel | 38,175 | 20.19 | 23.27
| |
| CPI | Gajanan Sahu | 6,436 | 3.40 | 3.4
| |
| BSP | Ranjit Kumar | 1,282 | 0.67 | - | |
| AAP | Jayaram Barik | 1,216 | 0.64 | - | |
| KOKD | Narayan Mohapatra | 718 | 0.37 | 1.93
| |
| Independent | Jogindra Majhi | 521 | 0.27 | - | |
| LGGP | Chaitanya Kanta | 609 | 0.32 | - | |
| Independent | Bishwa Lochan Bhoi | 477 | 0.25 | - | |
| NOTA | None of the above | 1,635 | 0.86 | - | |
| Registered electors | 1,89,012 | ||||
| BJP gain from INC | |||||
2009 election result edit
In 2009 election Indian National Congress candidate Anup Kumar Sai, defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Suresh Pujari by 1,742 votes.[12]
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| INC | Anup Kumar Sai | 50,585 | 43.46 | - | |
| BJP | Suresh Pujari | 48,843 | 41.96 | - | |
| CPI | Ramsahay Panda | 7,911 | 6.80 | - | |
| KOKD | Dilip Kumar Badhai | 2,673 | 2.30 | - | |
| BSP | Bhaskar Gadia | 2,382 | 2.05 | - | |
| Independent | Sanjay Kumar Ray | 1,286 | 1.10 | - | |
| Independent | Johan Kumar Nayak | 1,030 | 0.88 | - | |
| Independent | Tarani Sahu | 856 | 0.74 | - | |
| SP | Mohammad Akhtar | 830 | 0.71 | - | |
| Majority | 1,742 | 1.50[b] | |||
| Turnout | 1,16,402 | 63.62 | |||
| INC hold | |||||
Notes edit
References edit
- ^ "Orissa Assembly Election 2009". empoweringindia.org. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
Constituency: Brajarajnagar (6)District : Jharsuguda
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- ^ "Seats of Odisha".
- ^ "129 - Brajarajnagar Assembly Constituency". eci.nic.in. 2006. Retrieved 27 March 2014.
List Of Winning Candidates
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ India Today (4 June 2022). "Odisha: BJD candidate Alaka Mohanty records landslide victory in Brajrajnagar bypoll". Archived from the original on 19 November 2022. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
- ^ Zee News (24 May 2019). "Odisha Assembly election results 2019: Full list of winners". Archived from the original on 8 November 2022. Retrieved 8 November 2022.
- ^ "State Election, 2019 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
- ^ "List of Contesting Candidates(Phase-II) (AC)" (PDF). ceoorissa.nic.in. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Odisha. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
- ^ "Constituency Wise odisha Assembly Election result 2014". Leadtech.in. Archived from the original on 18 August 2014. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ "Odisha - Brajarajnagar". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ "Orissa Election Result 2009 With Vote Margin". leadtech.in. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
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- ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2009 to the Legislative Assembly of Orissa". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 October 2021.