Brajarajnagar (Vidhan Sabha constituency)

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

Brajarajnagar
Constituency No. 6 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
State	Odisha
District	Jharsuguda
LS constituency	Bargarh
Established	1961
Total electors	189,012
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
Current MLA	Kishore Kumar Mohanty(deceased)
Party	Biju Janata Dal
Elected year	2019

Brajarajnagar is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Jharsuguda district, Odisha. ^[1] Area of this constituency include Brajarajnagar, Belpahar, Lakhanpur block and Jharsuguda block. ^{[2] [3]}

Elected Members

Vote share of Winning candidates [4]
2019			48.7%
2014			37.34%
2009			43.46%
2004			39.13%
2000			40.81%
1995			32.40%
1990			60.76%
1985			50.65%
1980			54.60%
1977			32.64%

Fourteen elections held during 1961 to 2019. List of members elected from Brajarajnagar constituency are: ^[5]

• 2019: Kishore Kumar Mohanty (BJD)
• 2014: Radharani Panda (BJP)
• 2009: Anup Kumar Sai (Congress)
• 2004: Anup Kumar Sai (Congress)
• 2000: Anup Kumar Sai (Congress)
• 1995: Prasanna Kumar Panda (CPI)
• 1990: Prasanna Kumar Panda (CPI)
• 1985: Prasanna Kumar Panda (CPI)
• 1980: Upendra Dixit (Congress)-I
• 1977: Upendra Dixit (Congress)
• 1974: Prasanna Kumar Panda (CPI)
• 1971: Upendra Dixit (Orissa Jana Congress),
• 1967: Prasanna Kumar Panda (Communist)
• 1961: Prasanna Kumar Panda (Communist)

2019 Election Result

In 2019 election Biju Janata Dal candidate Kishore Kumar Mohanty, defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Radharani Panda by 11,634 votes.

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Brajarajnagar ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Kishore Kumar Mohanty	80,152	48.7	23.25
	BJP	Radharani Panda	68,153	41.63	14.79
	CPI	Ramesh Tripathi	9,350	5.68	2.28
	BSP	Sitaram Rohidas	2,018	1.23	0.56
	OPD	Rajani Bhue	941	0.57	-
	PSP (Lohia)	Subas Behera	488	0.3	-
	SKD	Haraprasad Meher	612	0.37	-
	Independent	Ajay Prasad Mandal	506	0.31	-
	Independent	Mithila Chhuria	573	0.35	-
	NOTA	None of the above	1,429	0.87	-
Majority			11634	7.05
Turnout			164587	77.9
	BJD gain from BJP

2014 Election Result

In 2014 election Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Radharani Panda, defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Anup Kumar Sai by 6,790 votes. ^[7]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Brajarajnagar ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Radharani Panda	50,736	26.84	15.12
	BJD	Anup Kumar Sai	43,946	23.25	-
	INC	Kishore Chandra Patel	38,175	20.19	23.27
	CPI	Gajanan Sahu	6,436	3.40	3.4
	BSP	Ranjit Kumar	1,282	0.67	-
	AAP	Jayaram Barik	1,216	0.64	-
	KOKD	Narayan Mohapatra	718	0.37	1.93
	Independent	Jogindra Majhi	521	0.27	-
	LGGP	Chaitanya Kanta	609	0.32	-
	Independent	Bishwa Lochan Bhoi	477	0.25	-
	NOTA	None of the above	1,635	0.86	-
Registered electors			1,89,012
	BJP gain from INC

2009 Election Result

In 2009 election Indian National Congress candidate Anup Kumar Sai, defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Suresh Pujari by 1,742 votes. ^[9]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election. Brajarajnagar ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Anup Kumar Sai	50,585	43.46	-
	BJP	Suresh Pujari	48,843	41.96	-
	CPI	Ramsahay Panda	7,911	6.80	-
	KOKD	Dilip Kumar Badhai	2,673	2.30	-
	BSP	Bhaskar Gadia	2,382	2.05	-
	Independent	Sanjay Kumar Ray	1,286	1.10	-
	Independent	Johan Kumar Nayak	1,030	0.88	-
	Independent	Tarani Sahu	856	0.74	-
	SP	Mohammad Akhtar	830	0.71	-
Majority			1,742	1.50 [lower-alpha 1]	-
Turnout			1,16,402	63.62	-
	INC hold

Notes

1. %of total valid votes

References

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