Constituency
136. Sonepur
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2024
OD-SONEPUR
BJD 46.4%won by 7.2%BJP 39.2%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.7% to 7.2%.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.2% to 83.3%.
- 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
2,56,007
Turnout
83.3%
Valid votes
2,11,461
Margin
15,239
7.21%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJD- 1Niranjan PujariBiju Janata Dal · BJD98,20246.4%
- 2Pramod Kumar MahapatraBharatiya Janata Party · BJP82,96339.2%
- 3Priyabrata SahuIndian National Congress · INC20,5089.7%
- 4Sonali BishiIndependent · IND5,5062.6%
- 5Mandodari ChhatriBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,4330.7%
- 6Suraj KushalAPoI · APoI1,2530.6%
- 7Uttam AdbankIndependent · IND8800.4%
- 8Shashibhusan PadhanNAPt · NAPt7160.3%
Since 2019
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–BJP swing
- −5.5%
- BJD share
- 48.8% → 46.4%
- BJP share
- 36.1% → 39.2%
- Turnout
- 81.1% → 83.3%