Brajarajnagar Assembly 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
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Jharsuguda
LS constituency	Bargarh
Established	1961
Total electors	189,012
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Suresh Pujari
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Brajarajnagar is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Jharsuguda district, Odisha. ^[1]

Area of this constituency includes Brajarajnagar, Belpahar, Lakhanpur block and Jharsuguda block. ^{[2] [3]}

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates [4]
2024			48.85%
2022 Bypoll			61.25%
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%

Since its formation in 1961, 16 elections were held till date including two bypolls in 1997 & 2022.

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

Year	Member	Party
2024	Suresh Pujari		BJP
2022 (bypoll) [lower-alpha 1]	Alka Mohanty [6]		BJD
2019	Kishore Kumar Mohanty [7] [8]
2014	Radharani Panda		BJP
2009	Anup Kumar Sai		INC
2004
2000
1997 (bypoll) [lower-alpha 2]	Keshab Sahoo
1995	Prasanna Kumar Panda		CPI
1990
1985
1980	Upendra Dikshit		INC
1977
1974	Prasanna Kumar Panda		CPI
1971	Upendra Dikshit		Congress (R)
1967	Prasanna Kumar Panda		CPI
1961

Election Results

2024

Voting were held on 20th May 2024 in 2nd phase of Odisha Assembly Election & 5th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4th June 2024. ^[9]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election, Brajarajnagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suresh Pujari	82,199	48.85
	BJD	Alka Mohanty	55,410	32.93
	INC	Kishore Chandra Patel	21,809	12.96
	NOTA	None of the above	1384	0.82
Majority			26,789	15.92
Turnout			1,68,268
	BJP gain from BJD

2022 Bypoll

In 2022 bye-election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Alka Mohanty defeated Indian National Congress candidate Kishore Chandra Patel by 66,122 votes.

2022 By-election: Brajarajnagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Alka Mohanty	93,953	61.25	12.55
	INC	Kishore Chandra Patel	27,831	18.14
	BJP	Radharani Panda	22,630	14.75	26.88
	CPI	Ramesh Kumar Tripathy	3,105	2.02	3.66
	Independent	Aditya Padhan	1,884	1.23	−
	None of the Above	None of the Above	4,000 [lower-alpha 3]	2.60
Majority			66,122	43.11
Turnout			1,54,048	71.62
	BJD hold

2019

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

2019 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election: Brajarajnagar ^[10]

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

In 2014 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Radharani Panda defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Anup Kumar Sai by 6,790 votes. ^[11]

2014 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election: Brajarajnagar ^[12]

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	−
Majority			6,790	3.59
Turnout			145851	76.52
Registered electors			1,89,012
	BJP gain from INC

2009

In 2009 election, Indian National Congress candidate Anup Kumar Sai defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Suresh Pujari by 1,742 votes. ^[13]

2009 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election: Brajarajnagar ^[14]

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 4]
Turnout			1,16,402	63.62
	INC hold

Notes

1. Death of Kishore Kumar Mohanty
2. Death of Prasanna Kumar Panda
3. Non of the Above+rest of the above
4. %of total valid votes

References

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