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Constituency No. 98 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly | |
Constituency details | |
Country | India |
Region | East India |
State | Odisha |
District | Kendrapara |
LS constituency | Kendrapara |
Established | 1951 |
Total electors | 237,969[1][a] |
Reservation | None |
Member of Legislative Assembly | |
16th Odisha Legislative Assembly | |
Incumbent | |
Party | Biju Janata Dal |
Elected year | 2019 |
Aul is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Kendrapara district, Odisha.[2]
This constituency includes Aul block and Rajkanika block.[3][4]
Sixteen elections were held between 1951 and 2019. Elected members from the Aul constituency are:[6][7]
Year | Member | Party | |
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2019 | Pratap Keshari Deb[8] | Biju Janata Dal |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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INC | Devendra Sharma | 81,254 | 48.9 | - | |
AAP | Soumya Ranjan Dhal | 248 | 0.15 | - | |
AOP | Pramila Samal | 264 | 0.16 | - | |
BJD | Pratap Keshari Deb | 77751 | 46.8 | - | |
BJP | Braja Sundar Bhuyan | 3914 | 2.36 | - | |
BSP | Birabara Jena | 726 | 0.44 | ||
CPI(ML)L | Bidhan Chandra Das | 335 | 0.20 | - | |
OJM | Akshaya Kumar Karan | 165 | 0.10 | - | |
SUCI(C) | Abani Das | 342 | 0.21 | - | |
NOTA | NOTA | 1153 | 0.69 | - | |
Registered electors |
In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Pratap Keshari Deb defeated Indian National Congress candidate Devendra Sharma by a margin of 5,877 votes.[9]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
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BJD | Pratap Keshari Deb | 72,012 | 50.00 | -3.08 | |
INC | Devendra Sharma | 66,135 | 45.92 | 0.76 | |
BJP | Braja Sundar Bhuyan | 3,358 | 2.33 | - | |
CPI(ML)L | Bidhan Chandra Das | 930 | 0.65 | - | |
BSP | Akshaya Kumar Mallik | 842 | 0.58 | - | |
SAMO | Pravati Sahu | 409 | 0.28 | - | |
RPI(A) | Prasant Kumar Nayak | 344 | 0.24 | - | |
Majority | 5,877 | 4.08[b] | - | ||
Turnout | 1,44,062 | 63.11 | 0.41[c] | ||
Registered electors | 2,28,257 | ||||
BJD hold |