Brajarajnagar (Vidhan Sabha Constituency)
Area of this constituency includes Brajarajnagar, Belpahar, Lakhanpur block and Jharsuguda block.
Elected Members
Since its formation in 1961, 16 elections were held till date including two bypolls in 1997 & 2022.
List of members elected from Brajarajnagar constituency are:
Year | Member | Party | |
---|---|---|---|
2024 | Suresh Pujari | BJP | |
2022 (bypoll) | Alka Mohanty | BJD | |
2019 | Kishore Kumar Mohanty | ||
2014 | Radharani Panda | BJP | |
2009 | Anup Kumar Sai | INC | |
2004 | |||
2000 | |||
1997 (bypoll) | Keshab Sahoo | ||
1995 | Prasanna Kumar Panda | CPI | |
1990 | |||
1985 | |||
1980 | Upendra Dikshit | INC | |
1977 | |||
1974 | Prasanna Kumar Panda | CPI | |
1971 | Upendra Dikshit | Congress (R) | |
1967 | Prasanna Kumar Panda | CPI | |
1961 |
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.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Suresh Pujari | 82,199 | 48.85 | ||
BJD | Alka Mohanty | 55,410 | 32.93 | ||
INC | Kishore Chandra Patel | 21,809 | 12.96 | ||
NOTA | None of the above | 1384 | 0.82 | ||
Majority | 26,789 | 15.92 | |||
Turnout | 1,68,268 | ||||
BJP gain from BJD |
2022 Bypoll
In 2022 bye-election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Alka Mohanty defeated Indian National Congress candidate Kishore Chandra Patel by 66,122 votes.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJD | Alka Mohanty | 93,953 | 61.25 | 12.55 | |
INC | Kishore Chandra Patel | 27,831 | 18.14 | ||
BJP | Radharani Panda | 22,630 | 14.75 | 26.88 | |
CPI | Ramesh Kumar Tripathy | 3,105 | 2.02 | 3.66 | |
Independent | Aditya Padhan | 1,884 | 1.23 | − | |
None of the Above | None of the Above | 4,000 | 2.60 | ||
Majority | 66,122 | 43.11 | |||
Turnout | 1,54,048 | 71.62 | |||
BJD hold |
2019
In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Kishore Kumar Mohanty defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Radharani Panda by 11,634 votes.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJD | Kishore Kumar Mohanty | 80,152 | 48.7 | 23.25 | |
BJP | Radharani Panda | 68,153 | 41.63 | 14.79 | |
CPI | Ramesh Tripathi | 9,350 | 5.68 | 2.28 | |
BSP | Sitaram Rohidas | 2,018 | 1.23 | 0.56 | |
OPD | Rajani Bhue | 941 | 0.57 | − | |
PSP (Lohia) | Subas Behera | 488 | 0.3 | − | |
SKD | Haraprasad Meher | 612 | 0.37 | − | |
Independent | Ajay Prasad Mandal | 506 | 0.31 | − | |
Independent | Mithila Chhuria | 573 | 0.35 | − | |
NOTA | None of the above | 1,429 | 0.87 | − | |
Majority | 11634 | 7.05 | |||
Turnout | 164587 | 77.9 | |||
BJD gain from BJP |
2014
In 2014 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Radharani Panda defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Anup Kumar Sai by 6,790 votes.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
BJP | Radharani Panda | 50,736 | 26.84 | 15.12 | |
BJD | Anup Kumar Sai | 43,946 | 23.25 | − | |
INC | Kishore Chandra Patel | 38,175 | 20.19 | 23.27 | |
CPI | Gajanan Sahu | 6,436 | 3.40 | 3.4 | |
BSP | Ranjit Kumar | 1,282 | 0.67 | − | |
AAP | Jayaram Barik | 1,216 | 0.64 | − | |
KOKD | Narayan Mohapatra | 718 | 0.37 | 1.93 | |
Independent | Jogindra Majhi | 521 | 0.27 | − | |
LGGP | Chaitanya Kanta | 609 | 0.32 | − | |
Independent | Bishwa Lochan Bhoi | 477 | 0.25 | − | |
NOTA | None of the above | 1,635 | 0.86 | − | |
Majority | 6,790 | 3.59 | |||
Turnout | 145851 | 76.52 | |||
Registered electors | 1,89,012 | ||||
BJP gain from INC |
2009
In 2009 election, Indian National Congress candidate Anup Kumar Sai defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Suresh Pujari by 1,742 votes.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
INC | Anup Kumar Sai | 50,585 | 43.46 | − | |
BJP | Suresh Pujari | 48,843 | 41.96 | − | |
CPI | Ramsahay Panda | 7,911 | 6.80 | − | |
KOKD | Dilip Kumar Badhai | 2,673 | 2.30 | − | |
BSP | Bhaskar Gadia | 2,382 | 2.05 | − | |
Independent | Sanjay Kumar Ray | 1,286 | 1.10 | − | |
Independent | Johan Kumar Nayak | 1,030 | 0.88 | − | |
Independent | Tarani Sahu | 856 | 0.74 | − | |
SP | Mohammad Akhtar | 830 | 0.71 | − | |
Majority | 1,742 | 1.50 | |||
Turnout | 1,16,402 | 63.62 | |||
INC hold |
Notes
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