Constituency
137. Soro
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2024
OD-SORO
BJD 39.2%won by 0.5%BJP 38.7%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.2% to 0.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.0% of the vote between them, up from 68.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 802 votes (0.49%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- 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
2,28,076
Turnout
71.4%
Valid votes
1,62,255
Margin
802
0.49%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJD- 1Madhab DhadaBiju Janata Dal · BJD63,64239.2%
- 2Parshuram DhadaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP62,84038.7%
- 3Subrat Kumar DhadaIndian National Congress · INC32,14919.8%
- 4Rakesh Kumar MalikIndependent · IND2,5661.6%
- 5Akshay Kumar JenaIndependent · IND2900.2%
- 6Jitendra SethiBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2600.2%
- 7Kashinath DasIndependent · IND2570.2%
- 8Shibani Shankar RayIndependent · IND2510.2%
Since 2019
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–BJP swing
- −2.7%
- BJD share
- 35.7% → 39.2%
- BJP share
- 32.5% → 38.7%
- Turnout
- 70.5% → 71.4%