Nilgiri Assembly constituency

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

Nilgiri
Constituency No. 40 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Balasore
LS constituency	Balasore
Established	1951
Total electors	1,68,934
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Santosh Khatua
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Nilgiri is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Balasore district, Odisha. ^[1]

Area of this constituency includes Nilagiri, Nilgiri block, Oupada block and 4 GPs (Kasabajayapur, Khantapada, Panapana and Patharpentha) of Bahanaga block. ^{[2] [3]}

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates [4]
2024			52.19%
2019			44.34%
2014			35.96%
2009			40.95%
2004			48.49%
2000			41.61%
1995			30.33%
1990			34.38%
1985			49.07%
1980			43.44%
1977			41.91%

Since its formation in 1951, 17 elections were held till date. It was a 2 member constituency in 1952.

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

Election	Name	Party
2024	Santosh Khatua		BJP
2019	Sukanta Kumar Nayak		BJP
2014	Sukanta Kumar Nayak		BJD
2009	Pratap Chandra Sarangi		Independent
2004	Pratap Chandra Sarangi		BJP
2000	Pradipta Panda		CPI(M)
1995	Akshaya Kumar Acharya		INC
1990	Chittaranjan Sarangi		Independent
1985	Sukumar Nayak		INC
1980	Akshaya Kumar Acharya		INC
1977	Rajendra Chandra Mardaraj Harichandan		Janata Party
1974	Banamali Das		CPI(M)
1971	Banamali Das		CPI(M)
1967	Banamali Das		CPI(M)
1961	Rajendra Chandra Mardaraj Harichandan		SWA
1957	Nilambar Das		INC
1951 [lower-alpha 1]	Chaitanya Prasad Sethi		INC
	Nilambar Das		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. ^[7]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election, Nilgiri

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Santosh Khatua	87,928
	BJD	Sukanta Kumar Nayak	68,089
	INC	Akshya Kumar Acharya	8,210
	CPI(M)	Jogananda Das	1,420
Majority			19839
Turnout			1,68,447
	BJP gain from BJD

2019

In 2019 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Sukanta Kumar Nayak defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Santosh Khatua by a margin of 1577 votes. ^[8]

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Nilgiri ^[9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Sukanta Kumar Nayak	69,517	44.34
	BJD	Santosh Khatua	67,940	43.33
	INC	Manoj Manjari Debi	12,413	7.92
	CPI(M)	Jogananda Dash	3,394	2.16
	NOTA	None of the above	1,203	0.77
Majority			1,577	1.01
Turnout			1,56,780	77.06
Registered electors			2,03,441
	BJP gain from BJD

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Sukanta Kumar Nayak defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Sushama Biswal by a margin of 13,700 votes. ^[10]

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Sukanta Kumar Nayak	50,514	35.96
	BJP	Sushama Biswal	36,814	26.21
	INC	Kartik Mohapatra	32,360	23.04	3.53
	CPI(M)	Pradipta Panda	17,018	12.12
	NOTA	None	1,127	0.8	−
Majority			13,700	9.75	7.11
Turnout			1,40,456	78.82	10.17
Registered electors			1,78,193
	BJD gain from Independent

2009

In 2009 election, Independent candidate Pratap Chandra Sarangi defeated Communist Party of India (Marxist) candidate Pradipta Panda by a margin of 3,056 votes. ^[13]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Nilgiri ^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Independent	Pratap Chandra Sarangi	35,525	30.63	-
	CPI(M)	Pradipta Panda	32,469	28.00	−
	INC	Diptikanta Mahapatra	22,627	19.51	−
	Independent	Kartik Mohapatra	16,726	14.42	−
	JMM	Chitta Ranjan Sadangi	5,609	4.84	−
Majority			3,056	2.64 [lower-alpha 2]	−
Turnout			1,15,972	68.65	−
	Independent gain from BJP

Notes

1. It was a 2 member constituency
2. % of total valid votes

References

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