Balasore Assembly constituency

Balasore
Balasore
Constituency No. 38 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Balasore
LS constituency	Balasore
Established	1951
Total electors	195,846
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
	17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
	Incumbent Manas Kumar Dutta
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Last updated October 31, 2024

Balasore is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Balasore district, Odisha.^[1]

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates^[4]

2024			50.90%
2020 (bypoll)			51.80%
2019			47.46%
2014			32.82%
2009			45.42%
2004			47.36%
2000			40.94%
1995			46.37%
1990			86.56%
1985			47.38%
1980			39.33%
1977			49.58%

Since its formation in 1951, 18 elections were held till date including one bypoll in 2020.

List of members elected from Balasore constituency are:^[5]^[6]

Year	Member
2024	Manas Kumar Dutta	BJP
2020 (bypoll)^{[lower-alpha 1]}	Swarup Kumar Das	BJD
2019	Madan Mohan Dutta ^[7]^[8]	BJP
2014	Jiban Pradip Dash	BJD
2009	Jiban Pradip Dash	BJD
2004	Arun Dey	Odisha Gana Parisad
2000	Jiban Pradip Dash	BJP
1995	Arun Dey	Independent
1990	Arun Dey	CPI
1985	Gopanarayan Das	INC
1980	Arun Dey	CPI
1977	Kartik Chandra Rout	JP
1974	Arun Dey	CPI
1971	Priyanath Nandy	Congress (R)
1967	Rabindra Mohan Das	PSP
1961	Bijoy Krushna De	INC
1957	Rabindra Mohan Das	PSP
1951	Surendra Nath Das	INC

Election Results

2024

Voting were held on 1st June 2024 in 4th phase of Odisha Assembly Election & 7th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4th June 2024.^[9]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election,Balasore
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Manas Kumar Dutta	89,360	50.90
	BJD	Swarup Kumar Das	60,734	34.59
	INC	Monalisa Lenka	19,259	10.97
	NOTA	None of the above	698	0.40
Majority			28,626	16.31
Turnout
	BJP gain from BJD

2020 Bypoll

In 2020 bye-election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Swarup Kumar Das defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Manas Kumar Dutta by a margin of 13,351 votes.

2020 Odisha Legislative Assembly by-election : Balasore
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJD	Swarup Kumar Das	84,097	51.8
	BJP	Manas Kumar Dutta^[10]	70,746	43.58
	INC	Mamata Kundu^[11]	4,983	3.07
	NOTA	None of the above	700	0.43
Majority			13,351	8.22
Turnout			1,64,458	71.33
	BJD gain from BJP

2019

In 2019 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Madan Mohan Dutta defeated BJD candidate Jiban Pradip Das by a margin of 13,406 votes.^[12]

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Balasore ^[13]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	BJP	Madan Mohan Dutta	74,815	47.26
	BJD	Jiban Pradip Dash	61,409	38.79
	INC	Manas Ranjan Das Pattnaik	19,704	12.45
	BSP	Mayadhar Behera	292	0.18
	AITC	Munsi Abdul Meheraj Alli	216	0.14
	Utkal Samaj	Prakash Lenka	162	0.1
	Purvanchal Janata Party (Secular)	Pratap Chandra Mohanty	129	0.08
	AIFB	Sarbeswar Mishra	92	0.06
	HM	Sadhana Das	183	0.12
	PSP(L)	SK Samiruddin	174	0.11
	Independent	Gajendra Bhuyan	163	0.10
	Independent	Manoj Kumar Nayak	306	0.19
	NOTA	None of the above	668	0.42
Majority			13406	8.46
Turnout			158313	80.83
	BJP gain from BJD

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Jiban Pradip Das defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Madan Mohan Dutta by a margin of 9,791 votes.^[14]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Balasore^[15]^[16]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Jiban Pradip Das	47,615	32.82	−12.6
	BJP	Madan Mohan Dutta	37,824	26.07	20.03
	INC	Arun Dey	28,650	19.75	10.55
	Independent	Manas Ranjan Das Pattnaik	24,720	17.04
	Independent	Basantalata Pattanayak	1,601	1.1
	Utkal Samaj	Bhaskar Chandra Jena	813	0.56
	CPI	Gouranga Charan Panigrahi	812	0.56
	AAP	Kesu Das	496	0.34
	Independent	Rajendra Bal	377	0.26
	AITC	Archana Nandi	366	0.25
	BSP	Mayadhar Behera	359	0.25
	Independent	Md Sahirul Haque	269	0.19
	Independent	Maheswar Behera	235	0.16
	Biju Swabhiman Dal	Abhishek Das	118	0.08
	NOTA	None	827	0.51	−
Majority			9,791	6.75
Turnout			1,45,082	74.08	8.83
Registered electors			1,95,846
	BJD hold

2009

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Jiban Pradip Dash defeated Independent candidate Anup Kumar Das by a margin of 13,490 votes.^[17]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Balasore ^[18]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Jiban Pradip Dash	55,710	*45.42*	−
	Independent	Anup Kumar Das	42,220	34.42	−
	INC	Subhankar Mohapatra	11,282	9.20	−
	BJP	Sanjay Kumar Patra	7,414	6.04	−
	Independent	Bhaskar Jena	2,745	2.24	−
	Independent	Rajendra Bal	1,453	1.18	−
	BSP	Tapas Kumar Sahu	576	0.47	−
	Independent	Jiban Mohan Sahu	505	0.41	−
	JMM	Sk. Sharfuddin	391	0.32	−
	Kalinga sena	Basudev Raul	372	0.30	−
Majority			13,490	11.00^{[lower-alpha 2]}	−
Turnout			1,22,680	65.25	−
	BJD gain from Odisha Gana Parisad

Notes

↑ Death of Madanmohan Dutta
↑ %of total valid votes

References

↑ "Orissa Assembly Election 2009". empoweringindia.org. Retrieved 22 February 2014. Constituency: Balasore (38) District : Balasore
↑ Assembly Constituencies and their Extent
↑ Seats of Odisha
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↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
↑ "Balasore Assembly Constituency, Orissa". Compare Infobase Limited. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
↑ "State Election, 2019 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 7 October 2021.
↑ "Odisha MLA Madan Mohan Dutta dies of heart attack | Bhubaneswar News - Times of India". The Times of India .
↑ "General Election to Legislative Assembly of Odisha 2024". ECI .
↑ "BJD, BJP field sons of departed MLAs in next month's Odisha bypolls". The Hindu. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
↑ "Congress finalizes candidates for Odisha by-elections". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
↑ "Constituency Wise odisha Assembly Election result 2019". results.eci.gov.in.
↑ "List of Contesting Candidates(Phase-II) (AC)" (PDF). ceoorissa.nic.in. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Odisha. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
↑ "Constituency Wise odisha Assembly Election result 2014". Leadtech.in. Archived from the original on 18 August 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2014.
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↑ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2009 to the LEgislative Assembly of Orissa". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 6 October 2021.

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[7] Death of Madanmohan Dutta

[20] %of total valid votes

[1] "Orissa Assembly Election 2009". empoweringindia.org. Retrieved 22 February 2014. Constituency: Balasore (38) District : Balasore

[2] Assembly Constituencies and their Extent

[3] Seats of Odisha

[4] "14 - Balasore Assembly Constituency". eci.nic.in. 2006. Retrieved 23 May 2019. List Of Winning Candidates

[5] "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 20 February 2014.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

[6] "Balasore Assembly Constituency, Orissa". Compare Infobase Limited. Retrieved 20 February 2014.

[election2019-8] "State Election, 2019 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 7 October 2021.

[9] "Odisha MLA Madan Mohan Dutta dies of heart attack | Bhubaneswar News - Times of India". The Times of India .

[10] "General Election to Legislative Assembly of Odisha 2024". ECI .

[11] "BJD, BJP field sons of departed MLAs in next month's Odisha bypolls". The Hindu. Retrieved 13 October 2020.

[12] "Congress finalizes candidates for Odisha by-elections". The Times of India. Retrieved 13 October 2020.

[13] "Constituency Wise odisha Assembly Election result 2019". results.eci.gov.in.

[SP_Ass_Cand-14] "List of Contesting Candidates(Phase-II) (AC)" (PDF). ceoorissa.nic.in. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Odisha. Retrieved 17 April 2019.

[15] "Constituency Wise odisha Assembly Election result 2014". Leadtech.in. Archived from the original on 18 August 2014. Retrieved 29 May 2014.

[16] "Odisha - Balasore". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 29 May 2014.

[17] "Orissa Assembly Election 2014, Constituency: Balasore (38)". EmpoweringIndia.org. Retrieved 29 May 2014.

[18] "Orissa Election Result 2009 With Vote Margin". leadtech.in. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2014. 13490

[election2009-19] "Statistical Report on General Election, 2009 to the LEgislative Assembly of Orissa". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 6 October 2021.

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