Dhenkanal Assembly constituency

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

Dhenkanal
Constituency No. 55 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Dhenkanal
LS constituency	Dhenkanal
Established	1951
Total electors	228,498 [1] [lower-alpha 1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Krushna Chandra Patra
Party	Bhartiya Janta Party
Elected year	2024

Dhenkanal is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Dhenkanal district, Odisha. ^[2]

This constituency includes Dhenkanal, Gondia block and 20 GPs (Baladiabandha, Baliamba, Beltikiri, Bhaliabolkateni, Bhapur, Chandrasekhar Prasad, Dhirapatana, Gobindpur, Kaimati, Kakudibhag, Kankadahad, Kankadpal, Madhusahupatna, Mangalpur, Manipur, Nadiali, Nagiapasi, Sankarpur, Saptasajya and Talabarkote) of Dhenkanal block. ^{[3] [4]}

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates [5]
2019			46.92%
2014			39.39%
2009			35.28%
2004			49.17%
2000			34.59%
1995			52.61%
1990			47.49%
1985			64.09%
1980			59.11%
1977			80.07%

Since its formation in 1951, 17 elections have been held till date. It was a 2 member constituency in 1957.

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

Year	Member	Party
2024	Krushna Chandra Patra		BJP
2019	Sudhir Kumar Samal [8]		BJD
2014	Saroj Kumar Samal		BJD
2009	Nabin Nanda		NCP
2004	Sudhir Kumar Samal		INC
2000	Krushna Chandra Patra		BJP
1995	Nabin Chandra Narayan Das		INC
1990	Tathagata Satapathy		JD
1985	Nandini Satpathy		Independent
1980	Nandini Satpathy		INC(U)
1977	Nandini Satpathy [9]		JP
1974	Nandini Satpathy		INC
1971	Surendra Mohan Patnaik		Congress (R)
1967	Ratnaprava Devi		SWA
1961	Ratnaprava Devi		SWA
1957 [lower-alpha 2]	Kalia Dehuri		AIGP
	Shankar Pratap Singh Deo Mahendra Bahadur Raja		AIGP
1951	Baisnab Charan Patnaik		CPI

Election Results

2024

Voting was held on 25th May 2024 in the 3rd phase of the Odisha Assembly Election & 6th phase of the Indian General Election. The counting of votes was on 4th June 2024. ^[10]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election, Dhenkanal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Krushna Chandra Patra	1,06,529	52.57
	BJD	Sudhir Kumar Samal	86,090	42.48
	INC	Susmita Singh Deo	4630	2.28
	NOTA	None of the above	1983	0.98
Majority			20,439
Turnout			2,02,637
	BJP gain from BJD

2019

In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Sudhir Kumar Samal defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Krushna Chandra Patra by a margin of 20,640 votes.

2019 Odisha Legislative Assembly election: Dhenkanal ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Sudhir Kumar Samal	89,536	46.92
	BJP	Krushna Chandra Patra	68896	36.11
	INC	Nabin Nanda	24788	12.99
	NOTA	None of the above	1265	0.66
Majority			20,640	10.81
Turnout			190810	74.9
	BJD hold

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Saroj Kumar Samal defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Krushna Chandra Patra by a margin of 3,294 votes. ^[12]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Dhenkanal ^{[13] [14]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Saroj Kumar Samal	69,083	39.39
	BJP	Krushna Chandra Patra	65,789	37.52	9.2
	INC	Sidheswari Prasad Mishra	30,571	17.43	-13.07
	BSP	Kamaksha Prasad Bihari	2,028	1.16	-0.09
	RPI(A)	Saikh Abdul Wali	1,731	0.99
	AAP	Shishira Kumar Satapathy	1,098	0.63
	AOP	Sadashiv Mohapatra	757	0.43
	Independent	Bibhuprada Sahoo	696	0.4
	Independent	Ranjan Kumar Nayak	688	0.4
	Independent	Aruna Kumar Sahoo	499	0.28
	SKD	Saroj Kumar Satapathy	376	0.21
	NOTA	None of the above	2,036	1.16
Majority			3,294	1.88
Turnout			1,75,360	76.74	12.16
Registered electors			2,28,498
	BJD gain from NCP

2009

In 2009 election, Nationalist Congress Party candidate Nabin Nanda defeated Indian National Congress candidate Sudhir Kumar Samal by a margin of 6,933 votes. ^[15]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Dhenkanal ^[16]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	NCP	Nabin Nanda	51,118	35.28	-
	INC	Sudhir Kumar Samal	44,185	30.50	-
	BJP	Krushna Chandra Patra	41,032	28.32	-
	SAMO	Anupama Baral	1,936	1.34	-
	BSP	Niroj Nalini Mahalik	1,815	1.25	-
	RPI	Saikh Abdul Wali	1,203	0.83	-
	Kalinga Sena	Chakradhar Nayak	946	0.65	-
	Independent	Madhusudan Naik	945	0.65	-
	RPD	Utkal Khatua	871	0.60	-
	Independent	Bana Maharana	837	0.58	-
Majority			6,933	4.79 [lower-alpha 3]	-
Turnout			1,44,914	64.58	-
Registered electors			2,24,399
	NCP gain from INC

Notes

1. as on 1 January 2014
2. It was a 2 member constituency
3. %of total valid votes

References

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