Kantabanji Assembly constituency

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

Kantabanji
Constituency No. 70 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
Division	Northern Division
District	Balangir
Lok Sabha constituency	Bolangir
Established	1961
Total electors	2,78,205 [a] [b]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Laxman Bag
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Kantabanji is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Balangir district, Odisha. ^[1]

This constituency includes Kantabanji, Turekela block, Bangomunda block and Muribahal block. ^{[2] [3]}

MLAs were Prasanna Pal of JD in 1990, independent candidate Chaitanya Pradhan in 1985, Prasanna Kumar Pal representing INC (I) in 1980 and representing INC in 1977. This seat became very trending when Naveen Patnaik got defeated here.

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates [4]
2024			44.57%
2019			33.60%
2014			31.65%
2009			43.24%
2004			40.68%
2000			29.24%
1995			44.80%
1990			46.25%
1985			46.68%
1980			54.84%
1977			42.33%

Since its formation in 1961, 15 elections were held till date.

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

Year	Member	Party
2024 [7]	Laxman Bag		Bharatiya Janata Party
2019 [8]	Santosh Singh Saluja	{{full party name with colorlIndian National Congress)
2014 [6]	Laxman Bag		Bharatiya Janata Party
2009 [1]	Santosh singh saluja sky blue Indian National Congress
2004 [9]	Ashok Rath		Bharatiya Janata Party
2000	Ramesh Chandra Dash		All India Trinamool Congress
1995	Paramananda Hatti		Bharatiya Janata Party
1990	Prasanna Pal		Janata Dal
1985	Chaitanya Pradhan		Independent politician
1980	Prasanna Pal		Indian National Congress (I)
1977			Indian National Congress
1974	Ram Prasad Mishra		Swatantra Party
1971	Achyutananda Mahananda
1967	Lokanath Rai
1961	Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo

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. ^[10] In 2024 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Laxman Bag defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Naveen Patnaik by a margin of 16,344 votes. ^[7]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election,Kantabanji

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Laxman Bag	90,876	44.57	11.04
	BJD	Naveen Patnaik	74,532	36.56	8.04
	INC	Santosh Singh Saluja	26,839	13.16	20.44
	NOTA	None of the above	1,649	0.81	0.47
Majority			16,344	8.01
Turnout			2,03,874	73.28
	BJP gain from INC

2019

In 2019 election, Indian National Congress candidate Santosh Singh Saluja defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Laxman Bag by a margin of 128 votes. ^[8]

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Kantabanji ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Santosh Singh Saluja	64,246	33.60	4.17
	BJP	Laxman Bag	64,118	33.53	15.80
	BJD	Ajaya Kumar Das	54,527	28.51	3.14
	NOTA	None of the above	2,453	1.28
Majority			128	0.07
Turnout			1,91,234	68.33
	INC gain from BJD

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Haji Md. Ayub Khan defeated Indian National Congress candidate Santosh Singh Saluja, who was seeking re-election, by a margin of 3,868 votes. ^[12]

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Haji Md. Ayub Khan	55,252	31.65	9.05
	INC	Santosh Singh Saluja	51,384	29.43	13.81
	BJP	Laxman Bag	30,961	17.73	6.58
	NOTA	None of the above	1,729	0.99	−
Majority			3,868	2.22	1.45
Turnout			1,74,582	72.34	3.43
Registered electors			2,41,337
	BJD gain from INC

2009

In 2009 election, Indian National Congress candidate Santosh Singh Saluja defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Haji Md. Ayub Khan by a margin of 5,304 votes. ^[1]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Kantabanji ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Santosh Singh Saluja	62,495	43.24	11.19
	BJD	Haji Md. Ayub Khan	57,191	40.70	15.56
	BJP	Ajay Kumar Das	16,117	11.15	−
Majority			5,304	3.67 [c]	−
Turnout			1,44,549	68.91	−
	INC gain from Independent		Swing	3.55 [d]

Notes

1. as on 2024
2. as data published by election commission
3. % of total valid votes
4. 2004 Voter turnout was 65.36%

References

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