Kendrapara_(Odisha_Vidhan_Sabha_constituency)

Kendrapara Assembly constituency

Constituency of the Odisha legislative assembly in India

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

Kendrapara (Sl. No.: 97) is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Kendrapara district, Odisha.^[2]

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Kendrapara
Constituency No. 97 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Kendrapara
LS constituency	Kendrapara
Established	1951
Total electors	1,93,764^[1]^{[lower-alpha 1]}
Reservation	SC
Member of Legislative Assembly
16th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sasibhusan Behera
Party	BJD

This constituency includes Kendrapara, Kendrapara block and 12 Gram panchayats (Alapua, Taradipal, Penthapal, Andara, Baluria, Amrutamanohi, Nilakanthapur, Balipatana, Narasinghpur, Badamulabasanta, Dihapada and Singhagan) of Pattamundai block.^[3]^[4]

Elected Members

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Vote share of winning candidates^[5]

2014			46.93%
2009			52.61%
2004			50.96%
2000			47.90%
1995			52.68%
1990			60.80%
1985			48.28%
1980			52.15%
1977			62.51%

Sixteen elections were held between 1951 and 2014 including one By-Poll in 1952.^[6]

Elected members from the Kendrapara constituency are:^[7]^[8]

2014: (97): Kishore Chandra Tarai (BJD)
2009: (97): Sipra Mallick (BJD)
2004: (33): Utkal Keshari Parida (Odisha Gana Parishad)
2000: (33): Bed Prakash Agarwal (BJP)
1995: (33): Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty (Congress)
1990: (33): Bed Prakash Agarwal (Janata Dal)
1985: (33): Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty (Congress)
1980: (33): Indramani Rout (Congress-I)
1977: (33): Bed Prakash Agarwal (Janata Party)
1974: (33): Bed Prakash Agarwal (Utkal Congress)
1971: (31): Bhagabat Prasad Mohanty (PSP)
1967: (31): Saroj Kanta Kanungo (PSP)
1961: (112): Dhruba Charan Sahu (PSP)
1957: (80): Prahalad Malik (Congress)
1952: (By-Poll): N. Purusottam (Congress)
1951: (69): Dinabandhu Sahu (Congress)

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Year	Member	Party
2019	Shashi Bhusan Behera^[9]		Biju Janata Dal

Election results

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Kishore Chandra Tarai defeated Indian National Congress candidate Ganeswara Behera by a margin of 5,431 votes.^[10]

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2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Kendrapara^[11]^[12]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Kishore Chandra Tarai	65,037	46.93	-5.68
	INC	Ganeswar Behera	59,606	43.01	3.82
	BJP	Sunakar Behera	9,981	7.2	1.42
	BSP	Akshaya Kumar Malik	1,645	1.19	0.55
	AOP	Jagannath Sethi	729	0.53	-
	CPI(ML)L	Babaji Charan Malik	372	0.27	-0.2
	AAP	Bijan Kumar Mallik	360	0.26	-
	Independent	Rabindra Sethi	171	0.12	-
	NOTA	None	682	0.49	-
Majority			5,431	3.92
Turnout			1,38,583	71.52	5.51
Registered electors			1,93,764
	BJD hold

2009 Election Results

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Sipra Mallick defeated Indian National Congress candidate Ganeswara Behera by a margin of 15,931 votes.^[13]

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2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Kendrapara^[14]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Sipra Mallick	62,436	52.61	-3.92
	INC	Ganeswar Behera	46,505	39.19	-4.28
	BJP	Bijay Kumar Mallick	6,861	5.78	-
	BSP	Ranjan Kumar Mallick	763	0.64	-
	CPI(ML)L	Radhakanta Sethy	552	0.47	-
	Independent	Satya Ranjan Jena	507	0.43	-
	SAMO	Nalini Kumar Gochhayat	467	0.39	-
	OCP	Nityananda Behera	382	0.32	-
	AITC	Bhagirathi Mallick	201	0.17	-
Majority			15,931	13.42^{[lower-alpha 2]}	-
Turnout			1,18,678	66.01	0.86^{[lower-alpha 3]}
Registered electors			1,79,787
	BJD gain from OGP

Notes

as on 1 January 2014
% of total valid votes
2004 Voter turnout was 65.15%

References

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"CONSTITUENCY-WISE ELECTOR INFORMATION" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
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"State Election, 2019 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
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"Constituency Wise odisha Assembly Election result 2014". Leadtech.in. Archived from the original on 18 August 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
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"Odisha - Kendrapara". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 1 June 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
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"Orissa Assembly Election 2014, Constituency: Kendrapara (97)". EmpoweringIndia.org. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
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