Constituency
79. Kantabanji
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2024
OD-KANTABANJI
BJP 44.9%won by 8.1%BJD 36.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 8.1%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 33.5% to 44.9% of the vote here (+11.4%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to Biju Janata Dal (BJD).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 81.8% of the vote between them, up from 67.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.0% to 73.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,78,205
Turnout
73.3%
Valid votes
2,02,225
Margin
16,344
8.08%
Candidates
11 contested · winner BJP- 1Laxman BagBharatiya Janata Party · BJP90,87644.9%
- 2Naveen PatnaikBiju Janata Dal · BJD74,53236.9%
- 3Santosh Singh SalujaIndian National Congress · INC26,83913.3%
- 4Dhaneswar MajhiIndependent · IND1,9030.9%
- 5Pandab BhoiCommunist Party of India · CPI1,4540.7%
- 6Sudam KaletAPoI · APoI1,2390.6%
- 7Abhiram DharuaAll India Forward Bloc · AIFB1,2170.6%
- 8Suratha BeheraIndependent · IND1,2040.6%
- 9Kamal Kumar ChhatriaIndependent · IND1,1270.6%
- 10Sohan SipkaIndependent · IND1,0920.5%
- 11Devendra Kumar JainKOMM · KOMM7420.4%
Since 2019
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–BJD swing
- +3.1%
- BJP share
- 33.5% → 44.9%
- BJD share
- 28.5% → 36.9%
- Turnout
- 68.3% → 73.3%