Constituency
56. Dharmgarh
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2024
OD-DHARMGARH
BJP 42.3%won by 9.1%BJD 33.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 9.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 26.6% to 42.3% of the vote here (+15.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.4% of the vote between them, up from 61.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,61,881
Turnout
80.2%
Valid votes
2,07,949
Margin
18,927
9.10%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1Sudhir Ranjan PattjoshiBharatiya Janata Party · BJP87,89042.3%
- 2Puspendra Singh DeoBiju Janata Dal · BJD68,96333.2%
- 3Rasmirekha RoutIndian National Congress · INC41,26919.8%
- 4Tirtharaj DurgaBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,1671.0%
- 5Tankadhar SabarAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB1,4770.7%
- 6Santosh Kumar BhoiSamajwadi Party · SP1,2700.6%
- 7Hemangini HansIndependent · IND1,2690.6%
- 8Heramba SenapatiIndependent · IND1,1560.6%
- 9Soumya Ranjan NaikIndependent · IND8910.4%
- 10Rupadhar NaikIndependent · IND8790.4%
- 11Prahalad AgrawalIndependent · IND7180.3%
Since 2019
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–BJD swing
- +17.3%
- BJP share
- 26.6% → 42.3%
- BJD share
- 34.7% → 33.2%
- Turnout
- 78.5% → 80.2%