Korei Assembly constituency

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

Korei
Constituency No. 53 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Jajpur
LS constituency	Jajpur
Established	1974
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Akash Das Nayak
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Korei is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Jajpur district, Odisha. ^[1]

Area of this constituency includes Byasanagar, Korei block and 9 GPs (Bhotaka, Laxminagar, Pahanga, Badakainchi, Gandhan, Tikarpada, Bahadalpur, Narasinghpur and Mugupal) of Rasulpur block. ^{[2] [3]}

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates [4]
2024			48.01%
2019			49.6%
2014			55.75%
2009			56.98%
2004			55.18%
2000			38.21%
1995			49.58%
1990			63.37%
1985			47.77%
1980			54.38%
1977			60.55%

Since its formation in 1974, 12 elections were held till date.

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

Year	Member	Party
2024	Akash Das Nayak		BJP
2019	Ashok Kumar Bal [7]		BJD
2014	Akash Das Nayak		BJD
2009	Pritiranjan Gharai		BJD
2004	Sanchita Mohanty		BJP
2000	Ashok Kumar Das		JD(S)
1995	Ashok Kumar Das		JD
1990	Ashok Kumar Das		JD
1985	Rama Chandra Khuntia		INC
1980	Ashok Kumar Das		JP(S)
1977	Ashok Kumar Das		JP
1974	Ashok Kumar Das		Utkal Congress

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. ^[8]

2024 Odisha Legislative Assembly election: Korei

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Akash Das Nayak	79,658	48.01	19.17
	BJD	Sandhyarani Das	74,012	44.61	4.99
	INC	Bandita Parida	8,177	4.93	14.32
	AAP	Trinayan Rath	1,073	0.65	New
	NOTA	None of the above	746	0.45	0.04
	BSP	Atala Kumar Jena	546	0.33	0.68
	Independent	Manoj Kumar Panda	493	0.30	New
	API	Gopal Krushna Mohanty	352	0.21	New
	Independent	Sahadev Jena	273	0.16	New
	Independent	Ramchandra Barik	210	0.13	New
	Independent	Binod Bihari Jena	194	0.12	New
	Praja Ektha Party	Saroj Kar	191	0.12	New
Majority			5,646	3.4	17.36
Turnout			1,65,925
	BJP gain from BJD		Swing

2019

Elections to Korei constituency was held along with 2019 General elections on 29 April 2019. The vote counting was held on 23 May 2019.

Biju Janata Dal candidate Ashok Kumar Bal defeated Bharatiya Janata Party Candidate Biswajeet Nayak by margin of 30724 votes. ^{[9] [10]}

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Korei ^{[11] [12] [10]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Ashok Kumar Bal	73,403	49.6	6.15
	BJP	Biswajeet Nayak	42679	28.84	17
	INC	Bandita Parida	28486	19.25	4.19
	Independent	Biswajit Mohanty	403	0.27	-
	Bahujan Mukti Party	Rama Chandra Barik	333	0.23	-
	BSP	Kajal Kinnar	1497	1.01	-
	ABHM	Dhirendra Nayak	457	0.31	-
	NOTA	None	731	0.49	0.3
Majority			30724	20.76	11.55
Turnout			147989	75.51	0.16
Registered electors			194,105
	BJD hold

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate |Akash Das Nayak defeated Indian National Congress candidate Biswajeet Nayak by a margin of 42,867 votes. ^[13]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Korei ^{[14] [15]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Akash Das Nayak	73,966	55.75	-1.23
	INC	Biswajeet Nayak	31,099	23.44	-10.25
	BJP	Sanchita Mohanty	15,761	11.88	6.22
	Independent	Pratap Kumar Mohanty	7,170	5.4
	AAP	Satyabrata Prusty	1,481	1.12
	Biju Swabhiman Dal	Paramananda Jyotish	758	0.57
	Independent	Bimal Kumar Dash	456	0.34
	Independent	Gopal Krushna Mohanty	427	0.32
	SKD	Biswanath Sahoo	402	0.3
	Independent	Tapan Kumar Khandai	250	0.19
	NOTA	None	911	0.69	-
Majority			42,867	32.31	9.03
Turnout			1,32,681	76.28	9.32
Registered electors			1,73,934
	BJD hold

2009

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Pritiranjan Gharai defeated Indian National Congress candidate Hemalata Khuntia by a margin of 25,112 votes. ^[16]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Korei ^[17]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Pritiranjan Gharai	61,448	56.98	-
	INC	Hemalata Khuntia	36,336	33.69	-
	BJP	Sanchita Mohanty	6,101	5.66	-
	SAMO	Priyabrata Mohapatra	1,594	1.48	-
	Independent	Mayadhar Nayak	846	0.78	-
	Independent	Anil Kumar Das	479	0.44	-
	Independent	Padmanabh Mall	478	0.44	-
	AITC	Mrutyunjaya Prasad Devnath	289	0.27	-
	Independent	Gopal Krushna Mohanty	276	0.26	-
Majority			25,112	23.28 [lower-alpha 1]	-
Turnout			1,07,871	66.96	-
	BJD gain from BJP

Notes

1. % of total valid votes

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