Kendrapara Assembly constituency

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

Kendrapara (SC)
Constituency No. 97 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Kendrapara
LS constituency	Kendrapara
Established	1951
Total electors	213,764
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Ganeswar Behera
Party	Biju Janata Dal
Elected year	2024

Kendrapara (Sl. No.: 97) is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Kendrapara district, Odisha. ^[1]

This constituency includes Kendrapara, Kendrapara block and 12 Gram panchayats (Alapua, Taradipal, Penthapal, Andara, Baluria, Amrutamanohi, Nilakanthapur, Balipatana, Narasinghpur, Badamulabasanta, Dihapada and Singhagan) of Pattamundai block. ^{[2] [3]}

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates [4]
2024			58.49%
2019			43.69%
2014			46.93%
2009			52.61%
2004			50.96%
2000			47.90%
1995			52.68%
1990			60.80%
1985			48.28%
1980			52.15%
1977			62.51%

Since its formation in 1951, 18 elections were held till date including one bypoll in 1955. ^[5]

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

Year	Member	Party
2024	Ganeswar Behera		BJD
2019	Shashi Bhusan Behera [8]		BJD
2014	Kishore Chandra Tarai		BJD
2009	Sipra Mallick		BJD
2004	Utkal Keshari Parida		Odisha Gana Parisad
2000	Bed Prakash Agarwal		BJP
1995	Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty		INC
1990	Bed Prakash Agarwal		JD
1985	Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty		INC
1980	Indramani Rout		INC
1977	Bed Prakash Agarwal		JP
1974	Bed Prakash Agarwal		Utkal Congress
1971	Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty		PSP
1967	Sarojakanta Kanungo		PSP
1961	Dhruba Charan Sahu		INC
1957 [lower-alpha 1]	Prahlad Mallik		INC
	Dinabandhu Sahoo		INC
1955 (bypoll) [lower-alpha 2]	Purusottam Nayak		INC
1951	Dinabandhu Sahoo		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. ^[9]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election,Kendrapara

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Ganeswar Behera	90,173	58.49	-
	BJP	Geetanjali Sethi	54,755	35.52	-
	INC	Sipra Mallick	7,478	4.85	-
	NOTA	None of the above	638	0.41	-
Majority			35,418	22.97	-
Turnout			154166
	BJD hold

2019

In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Shashi Bhusan Behera defeated Indian National Congress candidate Ganeswar Behera by a margin of 6,585 votes.

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Kendrapara ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Shashi Bhusan Behera	66,132	43.69
	INC	Ganeswar Behera	59547	39.34
	BJP	Sunakar Behera	22842	15.09
	NOTA	None of the above	486	0.32
Majority			6,585	4.35
Turnout			1,51,367	69.59
	BJD hold

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Kishore Chandra Tarai defeated Indian National Congress candidate Ganeswar Behera by a margin of 5,431 votes. ^[11]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Kendrapara ^{[12] [13]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Kishore Chandra Tarai	65,037	46.93	5.68
	INC	Ganeswar Behera	59,606	43.01	3.82
	BJP	Sunakar Behera	9,981	7.2	1.42
	BSP	Akshaya Kumar Malik	1,645	1.19	0.55
	AOP	Jagannath Sethi	729	0.53	-
	CPI(ML)L	Babaji Charan Malik	372	0.27	-0.2
	AAP	Bijan Kumar Mallik	360	0.26	-
	Independent	Rabindra Sethi	171	0.12	-
	NOTA	None of the above	682	0.49	-
Majority			5,431	3.92
Turnout			1,38,583	71.52	5.51
Registered electors			1,93,764
	BJD hold

2009

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Sipra Mallick defeated Indian National Congress candidate Ganeswar Behera by a margin of 15,931 votes. ^[14]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Kendrapara ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Sipra Mallick	62,436	52.61	3.92
	INC	Ganeswar Behera	46,505	39.19	4.28
	BJP	Bijay Kumar Mallick	6,861	5.78	-
	BSP	Ranjan Kumar Mallick	763	0.64	-
	CPI(ML)L	Radhakanta Sethy	552	0.47	-
	Independent	Satya Ranjan Jena	507	0.43	-
	SAMO	Nalini Kumar Gochhayat	467	0.39	-
	OCP	Nityananda Behera	382	0.32	-
	AITC	Bhagirathi Mallick	201	0.17	-
Majority			15,931	13.42 [lower-alpha 3]	-
Turnout			1,18,678	66.01	0.86 [lower-alpha 4]
Registered electors			1,79,787
	BJD gain from OGP

Notes

1. It was a 2 member constituency
2. Resignation of Dinabandhu Sahoo
3. % of total valid votes
4. 2004 Voter turnout was 65.15%

References

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