Parjanga Assembly constituency

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

Parjanga
Constituency No. 58 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Dhenkanal
LS constituency	Dhenkanal
Established	2009
Total electors	1,79,910
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent BIBHUTI BHUSAN PRADHAN
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

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

The area of this constituency includes Parjang block, Kankadahada block and five gram panchayats (GPs; Kusumajodi, Kantapal, Tumusinga, Kantiokateni and Kantioputasahi) of Kamakshyanagar block. ^{[2] [3]}

The constituency was formed in the 2008 Delimitation ^[4] and went for polls in the 2009 election.

Elected members

Vote share of winning candidates [5]
2019			46.93%
2014			40.06%
2009			44.84%

Since its formation in 2009, four elections were held till date.

The list of members elected from Parjanga constituency is: ^{[6] [7]}

Year	Member	Party
2024
2019	Nrushingha Charan Sahu [8]		BJD
2014	Nrushingha Charan Sahu		BJD
2009	Nrushingha Charan Sahu		BJD

Election results

2024

In the 2024 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Nrushingha Charan Sahu by a margin of 32,162 votes. ^[9]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election, Parjanga

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Nrushingha Charan Sahu	68,433
	BJP	Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan	100,595
	INC	Ranjit Kumar Sahu	3,482
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	BJP gain from BJD

2019

In the 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Nrushingha Charan Sahu defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan by a margin of 740 votes.

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Parjanga ^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Nrushingha Charan Sahu	78,747	46.93
	BJP	Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan	78,007	46.49
	INC	Jasaswini Rout	6,795	4.05
	NOTA	None of the above	1,518	0.90
	HND	Dibyajyoti Nayak	1,024	0.61
	API	Lambodar Naik	971	0.58
	ANC	Nirmala Mishra	740	0.44
Majority			740	0.44
Turnout			167,802	78.5
	BJD hold

2014

In the 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Nrushingha Charan Sahu defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan by a margin of 3,052 votes. ^[11]

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

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Nrushingha Charan Sahu	60,523	40.06	1.33
	BJP	Bibhuti Pradhan	57,471	38.04	3.48
	INC	Santosh Kumar Rout	18,240	12.07	−4.87
	Independent	Biswatosh Sahoo	8,967	5.94
	AITC	Dambaru Dehury	1,116	0.74
	AOP	Ranjit Kumar Sahu	886	0.59
	AAP	Susanta Kumar Pany	657	0.43
	OJM	Susanta Kumar Sahoo	559	0.37
	SKD	Bijaya Kumar Pratapdeou	456	0.3
	NOTA	None of the above	2,209	1.46	−
Majority			3,052	2.02	−2.15
Turnout			151,084	80.04	10.96
Registered electors			188,759
	BJD hold

2009

In the 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Nrushingha Charan Sahu defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan by a margin of 5,188 votes. ^[14]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election: Parjanga ^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Nrushingha Charan Sahu	48,131	38.73	−
	BJP	Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan	42,943	34.56	−
	INC	Laxmidhar Sahoo	21,048	16.94	−
	SAMO	Pratap Chandra Marandi	7,265	5.85	−
	Kalinga Sena	Arup Parida	1,510	1.22	−
	BSP	Premananda Sahoo	1,415	1.14	−
	RPI	Ranjubala Naik	1,127	0.91	−
	Indian Justice Party	Bidyadhar Naik	830	0.67	−
Majority			5,188	4.17 [a]	−
Turnout			124,277	69.08	−
	BJD win (new seat)

Notes

1. % of total valid votes

References

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