Constituency
22. Begunia
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2024
OD-BEGUNIA
BJD 57.8%won by 30.4%BJP 27.4%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.9% to 30.4%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Safe seatBiju Janata Dal won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,20,052
Turnout
72.0%
Valid votes
1,57,348
Margin
47,814
30.39%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJD- 1Pradip Kumar Sahu S/o- laxmidhar SahuBiju Janata Dal · BJD90,96457.8%
- 2Prakasha Chandra BijuliBharatiya Janata Party · BJP43,15027.4%
- 3Pruthvi Ballav PatnaikIndian National Congress · INC18,14411.5%
- 4Manas Ranjan DasMLD · MLD2,7361.7%
- 5Pradeep Kumar Sahoo S/o-dwitikrushna SahooIndependent · IND5370.3%
- 6Santosh Kumar SahooIndependent · IND3890.2%
- 7Manoj Kumar PradhanIndependent · IND3790.2%
- 8Subhakanta KhadiratnaIndependent · IND3460.2%
- 9Satyabrata MohapatraKRUP · KRUP3210.2%
- 10Janardan DalabeheraIndependent · IND2100.1%
- 11Suryakanti RoutJMBP · JMBP1720.1%
Since 2019
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–BJP swing
- +0.3%
- BJD share
- 47.1% → 57.8%
- BJP share
- 16.9% → 27.4%
- Turnout
- 72.3% → 72.0%