Narla Assembly constituency

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

Narla is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Kalahandi district, Odisha.^[2]

Narla
Constituency No. 81 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Kalahandi
LS constituency	Kalahandi
Established	1967
Total electors	1,96,059[1][a]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Manorama Mohanty
Party	Biju Janata Dal
Elected year	2024

This constituency includes Narla block, Karlamunda block, Madanpur-Rampur block and 9 Gram panchayats (Belkhandi, Hatikhoj, Kantesir, Kashurpada, Nunmath, Paralsingha, Sirjapalli, Tundla and Turlakhman) of Kesinga block.^[3][4]

Elected members

Vote share of winning candidates[5]
2024			36.47%
2019			31.12%
2014			37.73%
2009			36.32%
2004			49.53%
2000			55.22%
1995			36.27%
1990			63.91%
1985			53.16%
1980			56.02%
1977			47.41%

Since its formation in 1967, 14 elections were held till date.

List of members elected from Narla constituency are:^[6][7]

Year	Member	Party
2024	Manorama Mohanty		BJD
2019	Bhupinder Singh[8]		BJD
2014	Dhaneswar Majhi		BJD
2009	Bhupinder Singh		INC
2004	Balabhadra Majhi		BJD
2000	Balabhadra Majhi		BJD
1995	Balabhadra Majhi		JD
1990	Balabhadra Majhi		JD
1985	Kumara Mani Sabar		INC
1980	Tejraj Majhi		INC
1977	Tejraj Majhi		INC
1974	Dhaneswar Majhi		SWA
1971	Dhaneswar Majhi		SWA
1967	Anchal Majhi		SWA

Election Results

2024

Voting were held on 13th May 2024 in 1st phase of Odisha Assembly Election & 4th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4th June 2024.^[9]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election,Narla

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Manorama Mohanty	67,532	36.47	5.35
	INC	Bhakta Charan Das	62327	33.66	12.77
	BJP	Aniruddha Padhan	47417	25.61	0.24
	NOTA	None of the above	1300	0.7
Majority			5205	2.81
Turnout			185154
	BJD gain from

2019

In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Bhupinder Singh defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Aniruddha Padhan by a margin of 15,768 votes.

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Narla^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Bhupinder Singh	53,264	31.12	6.61
	BJP	Aniruddha Padhan	44,244	25.85	4.71
	INC	Chittaranjan Mandal	35,753	20.89	6.36
	Independent	Durga Prasad Mohanty	22,020	12.87
	Independent	Manoj Kumar Pattanayak	5,777	3.38
	Independent	Kedar Nath Rana	3,698	2.16
	API	Gabhira Suna	1,682	0.98
	BSP	Pravakar Nag	1,597	0.93	0.16
	CPI(ML)L	Durjyodhan Das	900	0.53	0.04
	BMP	Mahendra Dhangada Majhi	968	0.57	0.16
	NOTA	None of the above	1,236	0.72
Majority			15,768	10.48
Turnout			171139	79
	BJD hold

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Dhaneswar Majhi defeated Indian National Congress candidate Jagannath Pattnayak by a margin of 15,768 votes.^[11]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Narla^[12][13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Dhaneswar Majhi	56,783	37.73
	INC	Jagannath Pattnayak	41,015	27.25	−9.07
	BJP	Artatrana Mohapatra	31,809	21.14	4.91
	Independent	Arjun Sahoo	2,446	1.63
	SKD	Hemanta Kumar Das	2,147	1.43
	OJM	Laxmi Goudia	2,144	1.42
	Independent	Ashakari Nag	1,681	1.12
	BSP	Goura Chandra Seth	1,633	1.09
	AAP	Laxminarayan Panda	1,452	0.96
	AOP	Manoj Kumar Pattanayak	1,146	0.76
	Independent	Pravakar Nag	1,039	0.69
	KOKD	Baidyanath Mishra	949	0.63
	Independent	Debendra Nayak	858	0.57
	CPI(ML)L	Udhaba Sahu	854	0.57
	Paschimanchal Vikas Party	Bhisma Chandra Sahu	849	0.56
	Kalinga Sena	P. Shankar Reddi	782	0.52
	Independent	Uchhaba Sahu	648	0.43
	BMP	Mahendra Dhangada Majhi	623	0.41
	SAMO	Debaraj Sahu	593	0.39
	SP	Umesh Chandra Sahu	462	0.31
	NOTA	None of the above	583	0.39	−
Majority			15,768	10.47
Turnout			1,50,496	76.76	5.65
Registered electors			1,96,059
	BJD gain from INC

2009

In 2009 election, Indian National Congress candidate Bhupinder Singh defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Srikant Hota by a margin of 27,512 votes.^[14]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Narla^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Bhupinder Singh	49,748	36.32	−0.88
	BJP	Srikant Hota	22,236	16.23	−
	Independent	Nilamani Sahu	17,044	12.44	−
	NCP	Zakir Hussain	16,712	12.20	−
	Independent	Santosh Kumar Mund	12,199	8.91	−
	BSP	Kailash Chandra Jain	5,141	3.75	−
	SP	Ashok Kumar Chand	3,928	2.87	−
	SAMO	Sapan Kumar Pattnaik	3,812	2.78	−
	Independent	Jagajiban Barik	2,071	1.51	−
	CPI(ML)L	Judhisti Sa	1,615	1.18	−
	Independent	Mohan Jani	1,441	1.05	−
	Kalinga Sena	Suresh Choudhury	1,038	0.76	−
Majority			27,512	20.08[b]	−
Turnout			1,37,021	71.11	2.57'"`UNIQ−−ref−00000038−QINU`"'
	INC gain from BJD

Notes

1. as on 1 January 2014
2. % of total valid votes

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