Chandabali Assembly constituency

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

Chandabali
Constituency No. 47 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Bhadrak
LS constituency	Bhadrak
Established	1951
Total electors	196,539
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Byomkesh Ray
Party	Biju Janata Dal
Elected year	2024

Chandabali is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Bhadrak district, Odisha. ^[1]

Area of this constituency includes Chandabali, Chandabali block and 8 GPs (Daulatapur, Bamanbindha, Harisinghpur, Jamjodi, Rajnagar, Barasar, Sahapur and Gobindapur) of Tihidi block. ^{[2] [3]}

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates
2024			42.72%
2019			43.11%
2014			43.99%
2009			43.57%
2004			39.86%
2000			51.24%
1995			39.8%
1990			58.17%
1985			52.14%
1980			56.92%
1977			61.69%

Since its formation in 1951, 17 elections were held till date. It was a 2 member constituency for 1952 & 1957.

List of members elected from Chandabali constituency are: ^{[4] [5]}

Year	Member	Party
2024	Byomakesh Ray		BJD
2019	Byomkesh Ray [6]		BJD
2014	Byomakesh Ray		BJD
2009	Bijaya Nayak		BJD
2004	Netrananda Mallick		INC
2000	Bishnu Charan Sethi		BJP
1995	Netrananda Mallick		INC
1990	Bairagi Jena		JD
1985	Netrananda Mallick		INC
1980	Netrananda Mallick		INC
1977	Gangadhar Das		JP
1974	Manmohan Das		Utkal Congress
1971	Gangadhar Das		Congress (R)
1967	Manmohan Das		Jana Congress
1961	Bairagi Jena		INC
1957 [lower-alpha 1]	Nanda Kishore Jena		INC
	Nilamani Routray		INC
1951 [lower-alpha 2]	Brundabana Das		INC
	Chakradhar Behera [7]		INC

Election Results

2024

Voting were held on 1st June 2024 in 4th phase of Odisha Assembly Election & 7th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4th June 2024. ^[8]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election,Chandabali

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Byomakesh Ray	83,063	42.72	0.49
	BJP	Manmohan Samal	81,147	41.74	3.48
	INC	Amiya Kumar Mahapatra	28,483	14.65	2.16
	NOTA	None of the above	317	0.16	0.14
Majority			1,916
Turnout			194,420
	BJD hold		Swing

2019

In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Byomkesh Ray defeated Bharatiya Janata party candidate Manmohan Samal by a margin of 8080 votes. ^[9]

2019 Odisha Legislative Assembly election: Chandabali ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Byomkesh Ray	77,313	43.11
	BJP	Manmohan Samal	69233	38.26
	INC	Digambar Das	30146	16.81
	BSP	Ajaya Kumar Mahalik	1083	0.6
	NOTA	None of the above	536	0.3
Majority			8,080	4.85
Turnout			1,79,352	75.09
	BJD hold

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Byomkesh Ray defeated Indian National Congress candidate Amiya Kumar Mahapatra by a margin of 24,883 votes.

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Chandabali ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Byomkesh Ray	68,557	43.99	0.42
	INC	Amiya Kumar Mahapatra	43,674	28.02	-9.87
	BJP	Manmohan Samal	38,952	24.99	13.97
	CPI	Upendra Kumar Roul	1,687	1.08
	AOP	Biswakeshari Mohanty	1,249	0.8
	SP	Gangadhar Bal	426	0.27
	CPI(ML)L	Samarendra Bal	345	0.22
	AAP	Debadutta Mohanty	257	0.16
	OJM	Ranjan Panda	173	0.11
	NOTA	None of the above	539	0.35	-
Majority			24,883	15.96	10.29
Turnout			1,55,859	76.8	8.51
Registered electors			2,02,953
	BJD hold

2009

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Bijaya Nayak defeated Indian National Congress candidate Amiya Kumar Mahapatra by a margin of 7,613 votes.

2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election: Chandabali ^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Bijaya Nayak	58,467	43.57	-
	INC	Amiya Kumar Mahapatra	50,854	37.89	-
	BJP	Purna Chandra Pani	14,784	11.02	-
	Independent	Sangram Keshari Rout	6,085	4.53	-
	Independent	Biswa Keshari Mohanty	2,847	2.12	-
	BSP	Surya Ranjan Mishra	595	0.44	-
	Independent	Rabi Narayan Mohapatra	571	0.43	-
Majority			7,613	5.67 [lower-alpha 3]	-
Turnout			1,34,220	68.29	-
	BJD gain from INC

Notes

1. It was a 2 member constituency
2. It was a 2 member constituency
3. %of total valid votes

References

1. "Orissa Assembly Election 2009". empoweringindia.org. Retrieved 25 February 2014. Constituency: Chandabali (47) District : Bhadrak
2. "Assembly Constituencies and their Extent" (PDF).
3. "Seats of Odisha".
4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 December 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-20.
5. "Chandbali Assembly Constituency, Orissa". Compare Infobase Limited. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
6. "State Election, 2019 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 7 October 2021.
7. "MLA Chakradhar Behera Profile | CHANDABALI Constituency". odishahelpline.com. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
8. "General Election to Legislative Assembly of Odisha 2024". ECI .
9. "Assembly Election 2019 - Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in. Retrieved 26 May 2019.
10. "Jharkhand General Legislative Election 2019". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 13 October 2021.
11. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2014 to the Legislative Assembly of Orissa". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 6 October 2021.
12. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2009 to the Legislative Assembly of Orissa". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 6 October 2021.

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