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Bhawanipatna is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Kalahandi district, Odisha.

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.

Members of Legislative Assembly

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.

List of members elected from Bhawanipatna constituency are:

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.

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.

2014

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

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.

Notes

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

References

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• Assembly constituencies of Odisha
• Kalahandi district
• Politics of Odisha
• Constituencies established in 1951
• 1951 establishments in Orissa