Constituency
118. Pottangi
Community mirrorOdisha · Odisha Assembly Election, 2024
OD-POTTANGI
INC 35.2%won by 1.3%BJD 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Biju Janata Dal (BJD) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.3%.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.5% to 82.7%.
- 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
1,87,219
Turnout
82.7%
Valid votes
1,48,502
Margin
1,919
1.29%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1Rama Chandra KadamIndian National Congress · INC52,20235.2%
- 2Prafulla Kumar PangiBiju Janata Dal · BJD50,28333.9%
- 3Nandibali ChaitanyaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP35,46123.9%
- 4Phulomani PangiIndependent · IND2,7701.9%
- 5Gangamma MajhiIndependent · IND2,1851.5%
- 6Snehopatro SantaRPI(A) · RPI(A)2,0221.4%
- 7Murali Dhara GunthaBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,8311.2%
- 8Ambika Kumari PangiIndependent · IND1,7481.2%
Since 2019
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJD swing
- +4.2%
- INC share
- 32.2% → 35.2%
- BJD share
- 35.1% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- 76.3% → 82.7%