Constituency
68. Jaleswar
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2024
OD-JALESWAR
BJD 42.6%won by 0.2%BJP 42.4%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.1% to 0.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.6% to 77.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
2,54,539
Turnout
77.0%
Valid votes
1,95,213
Margin
319
0.16%
Candidates
8 contested · winner BJD- 1Aswini Kumar PatraBiju Janata Dal · BJD83,10542.6%
- 2Brajamohan PradhanBharatiya Janata Party · BJP82,78642.4%
- 3Sudarsan DasIndian National Congress · INC26,69213.7%
- 4Dibyakam MohantyIndependent · IND1,5500.8%
- 5Pradip Kumar SinghaPBI · PBI3280.2%
- 6Ramakanta JenaIndependent · IND2930.2%
- 7Hemanta Kumar SahuNBBHNRSVP · NBBHNRSVP2300.1%
- 8Purna Chandra SinghIndependent · IND2290.1%
Since 2019
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–BJP swing
- −19.9%
- BJD share
- 48.4% → 42.6%
- BJP share
- 28.3% → 42.4%
- Turnout
- 74.4% → 77.0%