Bhubaneswar North (Uttar) (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency)

Bhubaneswar North (Uttar)
Legislative Assembly of Odisha Constituency
District	Khordha
Blocks	Bhubaneswar
Electorate	2,61,021[1][lower-alpha 1]
Major settlements	Bhubaneswar
Current constituency
Created	2009
Party	BJD
MLA	Bhagirathi Badajena
Const. No.	113
Lok Sabha Constituencies	Bhubaneswar[2]

Bhubaneswar North (Uttar) (Sl. No.: 113) is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Khordha district, Odisha, India.^[3]

This constituency includes 5 Gram panchayats (Raghunathpur, Dadha, Kalyanpur, Barimunda and Kalarahanga) of Bhubaneswar block and Ward No. 1 to 11 & 13 of Bhubaneswar.^[4][5]

Elected Members

Vote share of Winning candidates
2009			72.05%

Only One election was held in 2009. Elected member from the Bhubaneswar North (Uttar) constituency is: ^[6]

• 2009: (113): Bhagirathi Badajena (BJD)

2014 Election Candidates and Results

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Bhubaneswar North (Uttar) ^[6]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJD	Priyadarshi Mishra	73,728	66.0%	-
	BJP	Dillip Mohanty	24,971	22.0%	-
	INC	Manoranjan Dash	8,223	7.0%	-
	AAP	Swarna Lata Pattnaik	1,513	1.3%	-
	AOP	Subhas Chandra Parida	1,030	0.9%	-
	CPI(ML) Liberation	Mahendra Kumar Parida	251	0.2%	-
	Independent	Swami Sampurnananda Saraswati	246	0.2%	-
	Kalinga Sena	Narendra Panda	229	0.2%	-
	Trinamool Congress	Bikekananda Patra	213	0.2%	-
	SP	Subhash Chandra Dash	176	0.2%	-
	CPI(M-L)	Rajalaxmi Nayak	155	0.1%	-
	Independent	Rabindra Kumar Patra	120	0.1%	-
	PBI	Hrusikesh Sadangi	86	0.1%	-
	NOTA	None	1,151	1.0%	-
Turnout			1,12,121	41.3%	-
Registered electors			2,71,208
	BJD hold		Swing	-

2009 Election Results

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Bhagirathi Badajena defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Golak Prasad Mahapatra by a margin of 51,462 votes.^[7]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Bhubaneswar North (Uttar) ^[8]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±
	BJD	Bhagirathi Badajena	62,278	72.05	-
	BJP	Golak Prasad Mahapatra	11,316	12.99	-
	INC	Kishore Kumar Jena	10,451	11.99	-
	Independent	Niranjan Mishra	490	0.56	-
	Independent	Pradhymna Satpathy	469	0.56	-
	Independent	Sudhansu Chandra Tripathy	466	0.53	-
	Independent	Santosh Das	417	0.48	-
	Independent	Biswanath Pattnaik	345	0.40	-
	LJP	Dharanidhar Das	242	0.28	-
	Jan Hitkari Party	Hrushikesh Pradhan	155	0.18	-
Majority			51,462	59.06[lower-alpha 2]	-
Turnout			87,154	35.09
Registered electors			2,48,377
	BJD win (new seat)

Notes

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

References

1. "CONSTITUENCY-WISE ELECTOR INFORMATION" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
2. "18 - Bhubaneswar Parliamentary (Lok Sabha) Constituency". Datanet India. Retrieved 25 April 2014.
3. "Orissa Assembly Election 2009". empoweringindia.org. Retrieved 25 April 2014. Constituency: Bhubaneswar North (Uttar) (113) District: Khordha
4. Assembly Constituencies and their Extent
5. Seats of Odisha
6. "Bhubaneswar North (Uttar) Assembly Constituency, Orissa". Compare Infobase Limited. Retrieved 26 April 2014.
7. "Orissa Election Result 2009 With Vote Margin". leadtech.in. Retrieved 16 April 2014. 51462
8. http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2009/stat_OR_April2009.pdf