Constituency
25. Bhandaripokhari
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2024
OD-BHANDARIPOKHARI
BJD 39.1%won by 0.8%INC 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.1% to 0.8%.
- Knife-edgeDecided by 1,551 votes (0.84%) — 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
2,40,416
Turnout
77.1%
Valid votes
1,85,080
Margin
1,551
0.84%
Candidates
13 contested · winner BJD- 1Sanjib Kumar MallickBiju Janata Dal · BJD72,44739.1%
- 2Niranjan PatnaikIndian National Congress · INC70,89638.3%
- 3Sudhanshu Sekhar NayakBharatiya Janata Party · BJP38,95221.0%
- 4Utkal Keshari BiswalIndependent · IND7620.4%
- 5Digambar SwainSUCI · SUCI7030.4%
- 6Manoj Kumar JenaBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3170.2%
- 7Debasish PanigrahiAAAP · AAAP2870.2%
- 8Santosh Kumar PereiIndependent · IND1780.1%
- 9Satyaranjan NayakIndependent · IND1420.1%
- 10Nirupama DasKRUP · KRUP1170.1%
- 11Narahari SahuNAPt · NAPt1110.1%
- 12Bijaya Kumar MallikODSHJP · ODSHJP880.0%
- 13Prasant Kumar BeheraIndependent · IND800.0%
Since 2019
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–INC swing
- −4.3%
- BJD share
- 40.5% → 39.1%
- INC share
- 35.4% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- 76.1% → 77.1%