Bhawanipatna (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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

Bhawanipatna
Legislative Assembly of Odisha Constituency
District	Kalahandi
Blocks	Bhawanipatna, Kesinga
Electorate	2,04,764 [1] [lower-alpha 1]
Major settlements	Bhawanipatna, Kesinga
Current constituency
Created	1951
Party	BJP
MLA	Pradeepta Kumar Naik
Const. No.	80
Reserved for	None
Lok Sabha Constituencies	Kalahandi

Bhawanipatna (Sl. No.: 80) is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Kalahandi district, Odisha. ^[2]

This constituency includes Bhawanipatna, Kesinga, 25 Gram panchayats (Madiguda, Chahagaon, Karlapada, Chheliamal, Kalam, Karlaguda, Thuapadar, Dadpur, Deypur, Gudialipadar, Kamthana, Kuliamal, Gand-Barajhola, Medinipur, Seinpur, Palsijharan, Udepur, Matia, Borda, Kendupati, Gurujung, Borbhata, Dumuria, Artal and Palana) of Bhawanipatna block and 17GPs (Adhamunda, Balsi, Boria, Chancher, Deogaon, Fatakmal, Gaigaon, Gokuleswar, Kandel, Kikia, Kundabandha, Laitara, Nasigaon, Pastikudi, Patharla, Sirol and Utkela) of Kesinga block. ^{[3] [4]}

In 2019 election, Indian National Congress candidate Sagar Charan Das won from this constituency.

Elected Members

Vote share of Winning candidates [5]
2009			36.47%
2004			49.24%
2000			55.91%
1995			23.94%
1990			49.33%
1985			45.51%
1980			71.99%
1977			52.67%

Sixteen elections were held between 1951 and 2014 including one Bye election in 1957. ^[6] Elected members from the Bhawanipatna constituency are: ^{[7] [8]}

• 1951: (18): J . C . Singh Deo (Ganatantra Parishad)
• 1957: (26): Karunakar Bhoi (Ganatantra Parishad)
• 1957: (Bye Poll): C. S. Pradhan (Ganatantra Parishad)
• 1961: (34): Anchal Majhi (Ganatantra Parishad)
• 1967: (93): Dayanidhi Naik (Congress)
• 1971: (93): Dayanidhi Naik (Jana Congress)
• 1974: (99): Jagamohan Nayak (Swatantra Party)
• 1977: (99): Dayanidhi Naik (Congress)
• 1980: (99): Dayanidhi Naik (Congress-I)
• 1985: (99): Bhakta Charan Das (Janata Party)
• 1990: (99): Ajit Das (Janata Dal)
• 1995: (99): Pradipta Kumar Naik (BJP)
• 1995: (99): Pradipta Kumar Naik (BJP)
• 2000: (99): Pradipta Kumar Naik (BJP)
• 2004: (99): Pradipta Kumar Naik (BJP)
• 2009: (80): Dusmanta Naik (Congress)
• 2014: (80): Anam Naik (BJD)
• 2019: (80): Pradipta Kumar Naik (BJP)

Election Results

2019

2019 Odisha Legislative Assembly election: Bhawanipatna ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pradipta Kumar Naik	63,063	38.00 %
	BJD	Dusmanta Naik	58379	35.00 %
	INC	Sagar Charan Das	35494	22.00 %
	BSP	Mangal Pal	1657	1.00 %
	API	Chandra Mani Mahananda	1875	1.00 %
	BMP	Rishi Sudan Chhatrapal	1283	1.00 %
	Independent	Jugeswar Naik	1117	1.00 %
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	BJP gain from BJD		Swing

2014

2014 Odisha Legislative Assembly election, Bhawanipatna

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Anam Naik
	AAP	Damayanti Mahanand
	AOP	Sarat Chandra Naik
	BJP	Dayanidhi Naik
	BSP	Chitrasen Chhatria
	INC	Dusmanta Naik
	NCP	Yudha Sunani
	SP	Lalu Nial
	PVP	Usha Nag
	SKD	Kaishab Bihari
	API	Baidya Nath Behera
	OJM	Manoj Naik
	BMP	Rishisudan Chhatrapal
	SAMO	Surya Narayan Kumar
	Kalinga Sena	Hemabanti Naik
	SWJP	Lingaraj Azad
	Independent	Baisnab Charan Naik
	NOTA	None of the above			-
Registered electors

2009 Election

2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election, Bhawanipatna ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dusmanta Naik	46,215	36.47	-4.92
	BJP	Pradipta Kumar Naik	44,020	34.73	-14.51
	BJD	Jayanta Kumar Naik	25,733	20.30
	BSP	Khageswar Naik	2,975	2.35	-
	Independent	Anjali Mangaraj	2,754	2.17	-
	SAMO	Ramani Duria	2,302	1.82	-
	SP	Aswini Chandan	1,542	1.22	-
	Kalinga Sena	Hemanta Kumar Tandi	1,194	0.94	-
Majority			2,195	1.73 [lower-alpha 2]	-
Turnout			1,26,809	64.33	-
	INC gain from BJP		Swing	0.97 [lower-alpha 3]

Notes

1. as on 1 January 2014
2. %of total valid votes
3. 2004 Voter turnout was 63.36%

References

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