Berhampur Assembly constituency

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

Berhampur
Constituency No. 133 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Ganjam
LS constituency	Berhampur
Established	1951
Total electors	170,830
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent K. Anil Kumar
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Berhampur is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Ganjam district. ^[1]

Area of this constituency includes ward no. 1 to ward no. 24 of Brahmapur Municipal Corporation. ^{[2] [3]}

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates [4]
2019			43.93%
2019			57.27%
2014			37.85%
2009			46.68%
2004			42.32%
2000			50.56%
1995			42.42%
1990			64.83%
1985			51.38%
1980			66.31%
1977			47.82%

Since its formation in 1951, 18 elections were held till date including one bypoll in 1955. It was a 2 member constituency for 1952 & 1957.

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

Year	Member	Party
2024	K. Anil Kumar		BJP
2019	Bikram Kumar Panda		BJD
2014	Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik [6]		BJD
2009	Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik		BJD
2004	Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik		BJD
2000	Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik		BJD
1995	Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik		JD
1990	Binayak Mahapatra		JD
1985	Siba Sankar Sahani		INC
1980	Krushna Chandra Patnaik		INC
1977	Ratna Manjari Devi		Independent
1974	Binayak Acharya		INC
1971	Binayak Acharya		Congress (R)
1967	Binayak Acharya		INC
1961	Sisir Kumar Narendra Deb		INC
1957 [lower-alpha 1]	Dandapani Das		INC
	Lingaraj Panigrahi		INC
1955 (bypoll) [lower-alpha 2]	Mohan Nayak [lower-alpha 3]		INC
	Brundaban Nayak [lower-alpha 4]		INC
1951 [lower-alpha 5]	Dandapani Das		Independent
	Ramachandra Mishra		Independent

Election Results

2024

In 2024 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate K Anil Kumar defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Dr.Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik by a margin of 18,709 votes.

2024 Vidhan Sabha Election,Berhampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	K. Anil Kumar	54,997	43.93	16.49
	BJD	Dr. Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik	36,288	28.99	28.28
	Independent	Siva Shankar Dash	24,661	19.70	11.44
	INC	Deepak Patnaik	5,385	4.30	0.22
	NOTA	None of the above	638	0.51
	AAP	Subash Chandra Raut	383	0.31
	Independent	Laxmana Maharana	378	0.30
	Independent	Jhasaketan Padhy	364	0.29
	Independent	Sarita Panda	341	0.27
	Independent	Manoj Pattnaik	322	0.26
	Independent	Brahma Nanda Tripathy	311	0.25
	BSP	Arun Kumar Sahu	307	0.25
	SUCI(C)	Nimai Charan Sahu	162	0.13
	Independent	Bishnu Charana Rana	139	0.11
	AIFB	Samim Begam	120	0.10
	Independent	Jeebano Patro	93	0.07
Majority			18,709	14.95
Turnout			1,25,181
	BJP gain from BJD

2019

In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Bikram Kumar Panda defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Kanhu Charan Pati by a margin of 35,484 votes.

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Berhampur ^[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Bikram Kumar Panda	68,113	57.27
	BJP	Kanhu Charan Pati	32629	27.44
	Independent	Siva Shankar Dash	9821	8.26
	INC	Lingaraj Chaudhury	5381	4.52
	NOTA	None of the above	1113	0.94
	BSP	Ashok Kumar Sahoo	459	0.39
	Independent	Abani Kumar Gaya	332	0.28
	Independent	Sumit Patro	304	0.26
	SUCI(C)	Sibanisankar Mishra	274	0.23
	Independent	Jeebano Patro	273	0.23
	ANC	Gobinda Chandra Sahu	230	0.19
Majority			35484	29.83
Turnout			118929	56.3
	BJD hold

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik defeated Indian National Congress candidate Bikram Kumar Panda by a margin of 1,039 votes. ^[8]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Berhampur ^{[9] [10]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik	43,211	37.85	-8.83
	INC	Bikram Kumar Panda	42,172	36.94	-5.07
	BJP	Siva Shankar Dash	24,092	21.1	13.18
	AAP	Ramesh Chandra Patra	970	0.85
	AITC	M. Ananda Rao Achary	524	0.46
	CPI(M)	Basanta Nanda	481	0.42
	BSP	Ramesha Chandra Behera	470	0.41	-1.02
	Independent	Satish Kumar Nayak	245	0.21
	Independent	Pramila Tripathy	231	0.2
	AOP	Pabitra Mohan Misra	200	0.18
	Independent	Daka Bishoyi	194	0.17
	SKD	Khalli Sahu	180	0.16
	Jan Morcha	Bipin Bihari Dash	156	0.14
	NOTA	None	1,029	0.9	-
Majority			1,039	0.91	-3.76
Turnout			1,14,155	63.99	15.82
Registered electors			1,78,405
	BJD hold

2009

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik defeated Indian National Congress candidate Bikram Kumar Panda by a margin of 3,844 votes.

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Berhampur ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Ramesh Chandra Chyau Patnaik	38,407	46.68	-
	INC	Bikram Kumar Panda	34,563	42.01	-
	BJP	Ram Chandra Panda	6,515	7.92	-
	BSP	Ashok Kumar Panda	1,174	1.43	-
	Independent	Samir Ranjan Pattnaik	421	0.51	-
	Independent	Dr. Ramahari Khandual	345	0.42	-
	SP	Saroj Kumar Pattanaik	309	0.38	-
	Samruddha Odisha	Sushanta Panda	287	0.35	-
	Independent	Shyama Sundar Pattnaik	258	0.31	-
Majority			3,844	4.67 [lower-alpha 6]	-
Turnout			82,293	48.17	-
	BJD hold

Notes

1. It was a 2 member constituency
2. It was a 2 member constituency
3. Resignation of Dandapani Das
4. Resignation of Ramachandra Mishra
5. It was a 2 member constituency
6. %of total valid votes

References

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3. Seats of Odisha
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