Rajgangpur Assembly constituency

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

Rajgangpur (ST)
Constituency No. 13 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Sundargarh
LS constituency	Sundargarh
Established	1951
Total electors	1,89,380
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent C. S. Raazen Ekka
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2024

Rajgangpur is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Sundargarh district, Odisha. ^[1] Area of this constituency includes Rajgangpur, Rajgangpur block, Lathikata block and part of Kutra block. ^{[2] [3]}

Members of Legislative Assembly

Vote share of winning candidates [4]
1977			49.39%
1980			33.03%
1985			52.37%
1990			64.26%
1995			37.93%
2000			45.69%
2004			50.79%
2009			30.91%
2014			34.19%
2019			30.98%
2024			36.74%

Since its formation in 1951, 17 elections have been held till date.

List of members elected from Rajgangpur constituency are: ^[5]

Year	Member	Party
1951	Agapit Lakra		Indian National Congress
1957	Santi Prakash Oram		Independent politician
1961	Rangaballabh Amat		Indian National Congress
1967	Premchand Bhagat		Swatantra Party
1971	Ignace Majhi		Jharkhand Party
1974	Christopher Ekka		Indian National Congress
1977	Brajamohan Kisan		Janata Party
1980	Mukharam Naik		Indian National Congress
1985	Mangala Kisan		Janata Party
1990			Janata Dal
1995
2000			Biju Janata Dal
2004	Gregory Minz		Indian National Congress
2009
2014	Mangala Kisan		Biju Janata Dal
2019	C. S. Raazen Ekka [6]		Indian National Congress
2024

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. ^[7]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election,Rajgangpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	C. S. Raazen Ekka	66,869	36.74	5.76
	BJD	Anil Baraa	56,685	31.14	0.70
	BJP	Narasingha Minz	52,655	28.93	1.46
	NOTA	None of the above	1,944	1.07	0.50
Majority			10,184
Turnout			182,030
	INC hold

2019

In 2019 election Indian National Congress candidate C S Raazen Ekka, defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Mangala Kisan by 946 votes.

2019 Odisha Legislative Assembly election: Rajgangpur ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	C S Raazen Ekka	53,918	30.98	3.07
	BJD	Mangala Kisan	52,972	30.44	3.75
	BJP	Narasingha Minz	52,896	30.39	12.42
	AAP	Anand Ekka	1085	0.62	0.22
	KJD	Parua Ekka	635	0.36	-
	Independent	Arthar Soreng	482	0.28	-
	Independent	Dasarathi Lakra	571	0.33	-
	Independent	Patras Tete	516	0.3	-
	Independent	Nishben Samad	1497	0.86	-
	Independent	Gregory Minz	3019	1.73	-
	Independent	Priyadarshini Bhoi	1615	0.93	-
	Independent	Siprian William Kiro	2749	1.58	-
	Independent	Sushil Kumar Lakra	1080	0.62	-
	NOTA	None of the above	995	0.57	-
Majority			946	0.54
Turnout			174030	68.79
	INC gain from BJD		Swing

2014

In 2014 election Biju Janata Dal candidate Mangala Kisan, defeated Indian National Congress candidate Gregory Minz by 10,036 votes. ^[9]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Rajgangpur ^{[10] [11]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Mangala Kisan	54,596	34.19	6.85
	INC	Gregory Minz	44,560	27.91	3.0
	BJP	Upendra Pradhan	28,694	17.97	3.51
	Independent	Bikram Toppo	12,091	7.57	-
	JMM	Dhaneswar Xalxo	7,829	4.9	10.47
	BSP	Anmol Kindo	2,706	1.69	0.68
	AOP	Mohanlal Kishan	1,652	1.03	-
	AAP	Pramod Ekka	1,341	0.84	-
	Independent	Marcel Kindo	862	0.54	-
	Independent	Clement Lakra	781	0.49	-
	KOKD	Philman Toppo	777	0.49	0.74
	Independent	Rajendra Kumar Lakra	769	0.48	-
	OJM	Augustine Minz	755	0.47	-
	JDP	Rubsen Horo	650	0.41	-
	SKD	Lawrence Kerketta	507	0.32	-
	NOTA	None of the above	1,105	0.69	-
Majority			10,036	6.28
Turnout			1,59,675	70.83
Registered electors			2,25,420
	BJD gain from INC

2009

In 2009 election Indian National Congress candidate Gregori Minj, defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Benedikt Tirkey by 4,115 votes. ^[12]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Rajgangpur ^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Gregori Minj	35,592	30.91	-
	BJD	Benedikt Tirkey	31,477	27.34	-
	JMM	Halu Mundari	17,693	15.37	-
	BJP	Mahendra Kumar Majhi	16,654	14.46	-
	Independent (politician)	Narayan Debasa	2,137	1.86	-
	Independent	Suraj Kishore Kujur	1,571	1.36	-
	Independent	William Xes	1,532	1.33	-
	Independent	Mohanlal Kisan	1,449	1.26	-
	KOKD	Santosh Minj	1,415	1.23	-
	BSP	Sanik Oram	1,162	1.01	-
	Jharkhand Disom Party	Dipak Kumar Soreng	980	0.85	-
	Independent	Jeram Ekka	883	0.77	-
	Independent	Bijay Oram	832	0.72	-
	Independent	Sachindra Barawa	812	0.71	-
	Independent	Padmini Nayak	523	0.45	-
	Independent	Raghupati Lakra	435	0.38	-
Majority			4,115	3.57 [lower-alpha 1]
Turnout			1,15,501	60.99
	INC hold

Notes

1. % of total valid votes

References

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