Digapahandi Assembly constituency

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

Digapahandi
Constituency No. 134 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Ganjam
LS constituency	Berhampur
Established	1957
Total electors	187,134 [1] [lower-alpha 1]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sidhant Mohapatra
Elected year	2024

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

This constituency includes Digapahandi, Digapahandi block and 17 Gram panchayats (Rohigam, Baulajholi, Kukudakhandi, Masiakhali, Jagadalpur, Ankushpur, Dakshinapur, Ballipada, Lanjia, Dengapadar, Bontapalli, Anantayi, Lathi, Mohuda, Kankia, Sahala and Baghalati) of Kukudakhandi block. ^{[3] [4]}

Constituency didn't existed in between 1967 & 2004. It was revived in 2008 Delimitation ^[5] and went for polls in 2009 election.

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates
2024			49.21%
2019			54.66%
2014			61.46%
2009			61.75%

Since its formation in 1957, 6 elections were held till date. It was a 2 member constituency in 1957.

List of members elected from Digapahandi constituency are

Year	Member	Party
1957	Mohan Naik		Indian National Congress
	Ananga Manjari Devi
1961	Raghunath Mahapatra
1967-2004 : Constituency did not exist
2009	Surjya Narayan Patro		Biju Janata Dal
2014
2019
2024	Sidhant Mohapatra		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election Results

2024

In 2024 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Sidhant Mohapatra defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Biplab Patro by a margin of 16,847 votes.

2024 Vidhan Sabha Election,Digapahandi

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sidhant Mohapatra	72,908	49.21	24.02
	BJD	Biplab Patro	56,061	37.84	16.82
	INC	Saka Sujit Kumar	10,090	6.81	6.17
	BSP	Nilamadhab Mishra	1,571	1.06	0.20
	NOTA	None of the above	1,338	0.90	0.69
	Independent	Brundaban Khatai	1,181	0.80	N/A
	Independent	Kanhu Charan Patra	964	0.65	N/A
	Independent	Sukanta Kishore Panda	840	0.57	N/A
	Independent	Simanchal Dakua	705	0.48	N/A
	AAP	Podal Manoj Kumar	616	0.42	N/A
	AIFB	Pintu Pradhan	549	0.37	N/A
	Independent	Jamuna Behera	519	0.35	N/A
	Independent	Kuna Das	433	0.29	N/A
	Independent	Jayaram Rauto	392	0.26	N/A
Majority			16,847	11.37	18.10
Turnout			1,48,167
	BJP gain from BJD

2019

In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Surjya Narayan Patro defeated Indian National Congress candidate V. Rabi Narayan Raju by a margin of 40,452 votes. ^[6]

2019 Odisha Legislative Assembly election: Digapahandi ^{[7] [8]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Surjya Narayan Patro	75,016	54.66
	BJP	Pinky Pradhan	34564	25.19
	INC	Prafulla Panda	17815	12.98
	Independent	Uttam Kumar Panigrahy	5234	3.81
	NOTA	None of the above	2185	1.59
	ANC	Bhagaban Sahoo	1239	0.9
	BSP	Pabitra Kumar Tripathy	1179	0.86
Majority			40452	29.47
Turnout			137232	63.99
	BJD hold

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Surjya Narayan Patro defeated Indian National Congress candidate Saka Sujit Kumar by a margin of 45,897 votes. ^{[9] [10]}

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Digapahandi ^{[11] [12]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Surjya Narayan Patro	78,949	61.46	−0.29
	INC	Saka Sujit Kumar	33,052	25.73	−5.0
	BJP	Bijaya Kumar Swain	7,771	6.05	2.15
	CPI(M)	Bidyadhar Jena	2,399	1.87
	AAP	Kuresh Maharana	1,949	1.52
	Independent	Pratap Kumar Sethy	1,119	0.87
	SKD	Bandana Maharana	830	0.65
	NOTA	None of the above	2,397	1.87	−
Majority			45,897	35.73	4.71
Turnout			1,28,466	68.65	5.83
Registered electors			1,87,134
	BJD hold

2009

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Surjya Narayan Patro defeated Indian National Congress candidate V. Rabi Narayan Raju by a margin of 32,763 votes. ^[13]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Digapahandi ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Surjya Narayan Patro	65,219	61.75	−
	INC	V. Rabi Narayan Raju	32,456	30.73	−
	BJP	Shreedhar Dev	4,119	3.90	−
	Independent	Saka Balaji	2,288	2.17	−
	SAMO	Promod Sabat	1,542	1.46	−
Majority			32,763	31.02 [lower-alpha 2]	−
Turnout			1,05,630	62.82	−
	BJD win (new seat)

Notes

1. as on 1 January 2014
2. %of total valid votes

References

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