Location
Jajpur assembly constituency is located in Jajpur district and consists of:
Jajpur, 16 GPs (Basudevpur, Beruda, Bhubaneswarpur, Bhuinpur, Bichitrapur, Chainipur, Jahanpur, Khairabad, Mala Anandapur, Markandapur, Nathasahi, Panasa, Maheswarpur, Shyamadaspur, Similia and Upparbaruhan) of Jajpur block and 16 GPs (Susua, Duduranta, Kanikapada, Mangalpur, Akarapada, Champeipal, Chhachina, Chittalo, Dasrathpur, Gopalpur, Kasapa, Katikata, Khandara, Mallikapur, Taliha and Tarpada) of Dasarathpur block.
Category
Designated as a General Constituency.
Voter Turnout
During the 2014 elections, the total number of electors was 209196 and the turnout stood at 72.19%, in real numbers- 151026 voters. 2019 witnessed a turnout decrease; out of the 233889 electors, 70.42% of voters exercised their constitutional rights. In real numbers though it was a reasonable jump-164706 voters.
Representation and Results
2019’s assembly election winner, BJD’s Pranab Prakash Das gained a vote share of 60.60% and defeated BJP’s Goutam Ray whose vote share stood at 35.90%. The remaining candidates in the fray were INC’s Santosh Kumar Nanda with 2.90% of vote share and an independent candidate Pradeep Kumar Behuria with 0.30% vote share.
Voting History -2014 & 2019
In 2014, BJD won the constituency and earned 104458 votes and 99738 votes in 2019. On the other hand, INC garnered 19845 votes in 2014 and 4745 votes in 2019 while BJP received 17180 votes in 2014 and 59082 votes in 2019. BJD completely dominated the district of Jajpur in 2019 by winning all 7 seats.
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