Begunia (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

This article is about the assembly constituency. For its eponymous town, see Begunia. For its eponymous town, see Begunia.

Begunia
Constituency No. 116 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Odisha
District	Khordha
LS constituency	Bhubaneswar
Established	1957
Total electors	193,920 [1] [lower-alpha 1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	Rajendra Kumar Sahoo
Party	Biju Janata Dal
Elected year	2019

Begunia is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Khordha district, Odisha, India. ^[2] This constituency includes Begunia block and Bologarh block. ^{[3] [4]}

Begunia is a block town of Khordha district of the Indian state of Odisha. The distance from district headquarters is 18 km.

Elected Members

Vote share of Winning candidates [5]
2019			47.06%
2014			51.46%
2009			38.73%
2004			47.71%
2000			42.70%
1995			45.85%
1990			58.80%
1985			59.99%
1980			47.08%
1977			34.49%

Fourteen elections were held between 1957 and 2014. Elected members from the Begunia constituency are: ^{[6] [7]}

• 2019: (116): Rajendra Kumar Sahoo (BJD)
• 2014: (116): Prasanta Kumar Jagadev (BJD)
• 2009: (116): Prashanta Nanda NCP ^[8]
• 2004: (60): Janaki Ballabh Patnaik (Congress)
• 2000: (60): Prashanta Nanda (BJP
• 1995: (60):Harihara Sahoo (Congress)
• 1990: (60): Surendranath Mishra Janata Dal)
• 1985: (60): Kailash Chandra Mohapatra (Congress)
• 1981: (60): Kailash Chandra Mohapatra (Congress-I)
• 1977: (60): Chintamani Panigrahi (Congress)
• 1974: (60): Satyananda Champatiray (UTC)
• 1971: (56): Gangadhar Paikaray (CPI)
• 1967: (56): Gangadhar Paikaray (CPI)
• 1961: (86): Gangadhar Paikaray (CPI)
• 1957: (59): Satyananda Champatiray (Congress)
• 1952: Gangadhar Paikaray (CPI)

2019 Election Result

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Begunia ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Rajendra Kumar Sahoo	73,178	47.06	4.40
	INC	Pradeep Kumar Sahoo	53,130	34.16	19.77
	BJP	Rhishav Nanda	26,321	16.93	9.55
	NOTA	None of the above	909	0.58
		Rest of the Candidates	1,973
Majority			20,048	12.90
Turnout
	BJD hold		Swing

2014 Election Result

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Begunia ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Prasanta Kumar Jagadev	73,984	51.46
	AOP	Pradeep Kumar Sahoo	30,559	21.26
	INC	Debasis Patnaik	20,689	14.39
	BJP	Jatin Kumar Mohanty	10,611	7.38
	AAP	Rajesh Rajaratan Bidhar			-
	BSP	Baman Naik			-
	CPI	Basant Kumar Paikray			-
	OJM	Krushna Chandra Barik			-
	SAMO	Mayadhar Behera			-
	SP	Lalit Mohan Harichandan			-
	Independent	Bhikari Charan Sahoo			-
	Independent	Nirvaya Kumar Samantray			-
	Independent	Raja Kishore Parida			-
	NOTA	None of the above			-
Registered electors			1,93,920
	BJD gain from NCP		Swing

2009 Election Results

In 2009 election, Nationalist Congress Party candidate Prashanta Nanda defeated Indian National Congress candidate Pradeep Kumar Sahoo by a margin of 10,617 votes. ^[11]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Begunia ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NCP	Prashanta Nanda	45,355	38.73	-
	INC	Pradeep Kumar Sahoo	34,738	29.66	-
	Independent	Kailash Chandra Mahapatra	13,074	11.16	-
	Independent	Dr. Prafulla Kumar Jati	12,171	10.39	-
	BJP	Surendranath Mishra	6,692	5.71	-
	Independent	Bhikari Charan Sahoo	1,903	1.62	-
	Independent	Nirvaya Kumar Samantray	997	0.85	-
	RPD	Natabar Maharana	804	0.69	-
	BSP	Sisir Mohapatra	757	0.65	-
	Independent	Pramod Chandra Dash	617	0.53	-
Majority			10,617	9.07 [lower-alpha 2]	-
Turnout			1,17,113	61.98	-
Registered electors			1,88,949
	NCP gain from INC		Swing	-3.53 [lower-alpha 3]

Notes

1. as on 1 January 2014
2. %of total valid votes
3. 2004 Voter turnout was 65.51%

References

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