Brahmagiri Assembly constituency

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

Brahmagiri
Constituency No. 108 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Puri
LS constituency	Puri
Established	1951
Total electors	194,024 [1] [lower-alpha 1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Upasna Mohapatra
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Brahmagiri is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Puri district, Odisha, India. ^[2]

This constituency includes Bramhagiri block, Krushnapraad block and 11 Gram panchayats (Kanheibidyadharpur, Gaudakera, Bijaya Ramachandrapur, Pratapramchandrapur, Biranarasinghapur, Birabalabhadrapur, Pratappurusottampur, Hantuka, Basudevpur, Kerandipur and Bhailipur) of Puri sadar block. ^{[3] [4]}

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates [5]
2019			49.41%
2014			48.67%
2009			48.57%
2004			50.01%
2000			57.77%
1995			37.76%
1990			54.15%
1985			46.78%
1980			36.90%
1977			41.64%

Since its formation in 1951, 17 elections were held till date.

List of members elected from Brahmagiri constituency are: ^{[6] [7]}

Year	Member	Party
2024	Upasna Mohapatra		BJP
2019	Lalitendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra [8]		BJP
2014	Sanjay Kumar Das Burma		BJD
2009	Sanjay Kumar Das Burma		BJD
2004	Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra		INC
2000	Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra		INC
1995	Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra		INC
1990	Ajaya Kumar Jena		JD
1985	Gangadhar Mohapatra		INC
1980	Gangadhar Mohapatra		INC
1977	Ajaya Kumar Jena		JP
1974	Sidheswar Panigrahi		CPI(M)
1971	Gopabandhu Patra		Congress (R)
1967	Brajamohan Mohanty		INC
1961	Gopabandhu Patra		INC
1957	Padma Charan Samantasinghar		INC
1951	Biswanath Parida		Independent

Election Results

2024

Voting were held on 25th May 2024 in 3rd phase of Odisha Assembly Election & 6th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4th June 2024. ^[9]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election,Brahmagiri

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Upasna Mohapatra	95,783
	BJD	Umakanta Samantaray	85,953
	INC	Mitrabhanu Mohapatra	1,910
	NOTA	None of the above	395
Majority			9830
Turnout
	BJP hold

2019

In 2019 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Lalitendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Sanjay Kumar Das Burma by a margin of 2130 votes.

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Brahmagiri ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Lalitendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra	88,256	49.41
	BJD	Sanjay Kumar Das Burma	86,126	48.22
	INC	Umakanta Baral	2,504	1.40
	NOTA	None of the above	760	0.43
Majority			2,130	1.19
Turnout			1,78,626	81.52
	BJP gain from BJD

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Sanjay Kumar Das Burma defeated Indian National Congress candidate Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra by a margin of 1,341 votes. ^[11]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Brahmagiri ^{[12] [13]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Sanjay Kumar Das Burma	78,675	48.67	0.1
	INC	Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra	77,334	47.84	2.64
	BJP	Debendranath Tarei	3,277	2.03	-2.36
	BSP	Mangaraj Das	736	0.46	-0.46
	OJM	Subhashree Biswal	511	0.32	-
	Independent	Sanjay Das	315	0.19	-
	Independent	Susanta Kumar Das	249	0.15	-
	NOTA	None	546	0.34	-
Majority			1,341	0.82	-
Turnout			1,61,643	83.31	4.7
Registered electors			1,94,024
	BJD hold

2009

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Sanjay Kumar Das Burma defeated Indian National Congress candidate Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra by a margin of 4,886 votes. ^[14]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Brahmagiri ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Sanjay Kumar Das Burma	70,533	48.57	2.3
	INC	Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mohapatra	65,647	45.20	-7.51
	BJP	Amrut Kumar Jena	6,382	4.39	-
	BSP	Laxmipriya Mallik	1,386	0.92	-
	SP	Sakuntala Mishra	442	0.38	-
	Independent	Biharibandhu Palai	422	0.29	-
	Independent	Pramod Parida	309	0.21	-
	SAMO	Saroj Kumar Pradhan	290	0.20	-
	Independent	Niranjan Biswal	223	0.15	-
Majority			4,886	3.36 [lower-alpha 2]	-
Turnout			1,45,338	78.61	4.96 [lower-alpha 3]
	BJD gain from INC

Notes

1. as on 1 January 2014
2. %of total valid votes
3. 2004 Voter turnout was 73.65%

References

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