Kamakhyanagar Assembly constituency

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

Kamakhyanagar
Constituency No. 57 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Dhenkanal
LS constituency	Dhenkanal
Established	1957
Total electors	183,377
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Prafulla Kumar Mallik
Party	Biju Janata Dal
Elected year	2019

Kamakhyanagar is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Dhenkanal district, Odisha. ^[1]

Area of this constituency includes Kamakhyanagar, Bhuban, 15 GPs (Badasuanlo, Jagannathpur, Bhairapur, Baruan(K), Baunspal, Kanapura, Baisinga, Baligorad, Mahulapal, Kadua, Rainarasinghpur, Sogar, Budhibilli, Bankual and Kotagara) of Kamakshyanagar block and 7 GPs (Barada, Gengutia, Sankulei, Tarva, Chaulia, Sogarpasi and Bansingh) of Dhenkanal block, and Bhuban block. ^{[2] [3]}

In 1985 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Prasanna Pattnaik was elected from Kamakhyanagar to become the first BJP MLA from Odisha.

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates [4]
2019			51.58%
2014			43.59%
2009			45.11%
2004			44.84%
2000			51.71%
1995			60.75%
1990			51.79%
1985			48.15%
1980			58.54%
1977			41.87%

Since its formation in 1957, 17 elections were held till date including one bypoll in 1997.

List of members elected from Kamakshyanagar constituency are: ^{[5] [6]}

Year	Member	Party
2024
2019	Prafulla Kumar Mallik [7]		BJD
2014	Prafulla Kumar Mallik		BJD
2009	Prafulla Kumar Mallik		BJD
2004	Prafulla Kumar Mallik		BJD
2000	Brahmananda Biswal		BJD
1997 (bypoll) [lower-alpha 1]	Premalata Mohapatra		INC
1995	Kailash Chandra Mohapatra		INC
1990	Prasanna Patanayak		JD
1985	Prasanna Patanayak		BJP
1980	Kailash Chandra Mohapatra		INC
1977	Prasanna Patanayak		JP
1974	Brahmananda Biswal		INC
1971	Brahmananda Biswal		Congress (R)
1967	Brundaban Tripathy		SWA
1961	Brundaban Tripathy		SWA
1957	Ratnaprava Devi		AIGP

Election Results

2024

Voting were held on 25th May 2024 in 3rd phase of Odisha Assembly Election & 6th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4th June 2024. ^[8]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election,Kamakshyanagar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Prafulla Kumar Mallick
	BJP	Satrughan Jena
	INC	Biprabar Sahu
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	gain from

2019

In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Prafulla Kumar Mallik defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Satrughna Jena by a margin of 16,509 votes.

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Kamakshyanagar ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Prafulla Kumar Mallik	81,695	51.58
	BJP	Satrughna Jena	65186	41.16
	INC	Bhabani Sankar Mohaptra	6694	4.23
	NOTA	None of the above	1453	0.92
Majority			16,509	10.42
Turnout			158379	73.71
	BJD hold

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Prafulla Kumar Mallik defeated Indian National Congress candidate Bhabani Sankar Mohaptra by a margin of 16,881 votes. ^[10]

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Prafulla Kumar Mallik	64,163	43.59	-1.52
	INC	Bhabani Sankar Mohaptra	47,282	32.12	4.29
	BJP	Prasanna Pattnaik	25,927	17.61	8.18
	CPI	Shiba Ram Sahu	2,471	1.68
	Independent	Debasisha Hota	2,436	1.65
	AOP	Biprabara Sahoo	1,664	1.13
	AAP	Mayadhara Nayak	813	0.55
	Samata Party	Akrur Behera	477	0.32
	NOTA	None	1,965	1.33	-
Majority			16,881	11.47	-5.81
Turnout			1,47,198	76.74	11.74
Registered electors			1,91,817
	BJD hold

2009

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Prafulla Kumar Mallik defeated Indian National Congress candidate Satrughan Jena by a margin of 20,594 votes. ^[13]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Kamakshyanagar ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Prafulla Kumar Mallik	53,766	45.11	0.27
	INC	Satrughan Jena	33,172	27.83	-
	SP	Kailash Chandra Mishra	19,217	16.12	-
	BJP	Premananda Jena	11,241	9.43	-
	BSP	Santosh Kumar Sahoo	1,780	1.49	-
Majority			20,594	17.28 [lower-alpha 2]	-
Turnout			1,19,203	65.00	-
	BJD hold

Notes

1. Death of Kailash Chandra Mohapatra
2. %of total valid votes

References

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