Bhawanipatna Assembly constituency

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

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

Bhawanipatna (SC)
Constituency No. 80 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Kalahandi
LS constituency	Kalahandi
Established	1951
Total electors	204,764[1][a]
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sagar Charan Das
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2024

This constituency includes Bhawanipatna, Kesinga, 25 Gram panchayats (Madiguda, Chahagaon, Karlapada, Chheliamal, Kalam, Karlaguda, Thuapadar, Dadpur, Deypur, Gudialipadar, Kamthana, Kuliamal, Gand-Barajhola, Medinipur, Seinpur, Palsijharan, Udepur, Matia, Borda, Kendupati, Gurujung, Borbhata, Dumuria, Artal and Palana) of Bhawanipatna block and 17GPs (Adhamunda, Balsi, Boria, Chancher, Deogaon, Fatakmal, Gaigaon, Gokuleswar, Kandel, Kikia, Kundabandha, Laitara, Nasigaon, Pastikudi, Patharla, Sirol and Utkela) of Kesinga block.^[3][4]

Members of Legislative Assembly

Vote share of winning candidates[5]
1977			52.67%
1980			71.99%
1985			45.51%
1990			49.33%
1995			23.94%
2000			55.91%
2004			49.24%
2009			36.47%
2014			43.36%
2019			38.00%

Since its formation in 1951, 18 elections were held till date including in one bypoll in 1957. It was a 2 member constituency for 1952 & 1957.^[6]

List of members elected from Bhawanipatna constituency are:^[7][8]

Year	Member[9]	Party
1951	Janardan Majhi		Ganatantra Parishad
	Jogesh Chandra Singh Deo
1957	Karunakar Bhoi
	Pratap Keshari Deo
1957^	Chandra Sekhar Pradhan
1961	Anchal Majhi		Swatantra Party
1967	Dayanidhi Naik
1971
1974	Jagamohan Nayak
1977	Dayanidhi Naik		Indian National Congress
1980			Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Bhakta Charan Das		Janata Party
1990	Ajit Das		Janata Dal
1995	Pradipta Kumar Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party
2000
2004
2009	Dusmanta Naik		Indian National Congress
2014	Anam Naik		Biju Janata Dal
2019	Pradipta Kumar Naik		Bharatiya Janata Party
2024	Sagar Charan Das		Indian National Congress

Election Results

2024

Voting were held on 13 May 2024 in 1st phase of Odisha Assembly Election & 4th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4 June 2024.^[10]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election, Bhawanipatna

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sagar Charan Das	67,085	37.39	15.39
	BJP	Pradipta Kumar Naik	53344	29.73	8.27
	BJD	Latika Naik	50897	28.37	6.63
	NOTA	None of the above	1469	0.82
Majority			13741	7.63
Turnout			179420
	INC gain from BJP

2019

In 2019 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Pradipta Kumar Naik defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Dusmanta Naik by a margin of 4684 votes.^[11][12]

2019 Odisha Legislative Assembly election: Bhawanipatna^[13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pradipta Kumar Naik	63,063	38.00
	BJD	Dusmanta Naik	58379	35.00
	INC	Sagar Charan Das	35494	22.00
	BSP	Mangal Pal	1657	1.00
	API	Chandra Mani Mahananda	1875	1.00
	BMP	Rishi Sudan Chhatrapal	1283	1.00
	Independent	Jugeswar Naik	1117	1.00
	NOTA	None of the above	1743	1.06
Majority			4684	3.00
Turnout			164611	71.81
	BJP gain from BJD

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Anam Naik defeated Indian National Congress candidate Dusmanta Naik by a margin of 10,814 votes.^[11]

2014 Odisha Legislative Assembly election, Bhawanipatna

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Anam Naik	54,825	43.26
	INC	Dusmanta Naik	44,011	34.73
	BJP	Dayanidhi Naik	32449	25.60
	NOTA	None of the above	1083	0.73
Majority			10,814	8.53
Turnout			149261	72.46
	BJD gain from INC

2009

In 2009 election, Indian National Congress candidate Dusmanta Naik defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Pradipta Kumar Naik by a margin of 2,195 votes.^[11]

2009 Odisha Legislative Assembly election, Bhawanipatna^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Dusmanta Naik	46,215	36.47	−4.92
	BJP	Pradipta Kumar Naik	44,020	34.73	−14.51
	BJD	Jayanta Kumar Naik	25,733	20.30
	BSP	Khageswar Naik	2,975	2.35	−
	Independent	Anjali Mangaraj	2,754	2.17	−
	SAMO	Ramani Duria	2,302	1.82	−
	SP	Aswini Chandan	1,542	1.22	−
	Kalinga Sena	Hemanta Kumar Tandi	1,194	0.94	−
Majority			2,195	1.73[b]	−
Turnout			1,26,809	64.33	−
	INC gain from BJP		Swing	0.97[c]

Notes

1. as on 1 January 2014
2. %of total valid votes
3. 2004 Voter turnout was 63.36%

References

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