Jatani Assembly constituency

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

Jatani is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Khordha district, Odisha, India.^[2]

Jatani
Constituency No. 115 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Khordha
Lok Sabha constituency	Bhubaneswar
Established	1974
Total electors	2,04,166[1][a]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray
Party	Biju Janata Dal
Elected year	2024

This constituency includes Jatani, Jatani block and 6 Gram panchayats (Gadahaladia, Keranga, Malipur, Tangiapada, Pubusahi and Nalipada-Arjunpur) of Khurda block and 10 GPs (Padhanasahi, Chandaka, Darutheng, Andharua, Paikerapur, Mendhasal, Tamando, Nanput, Kantabad and Ranasinghpur) of Bhubaneswar block.^[3][4]

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates[5]
2024			39.06%
2019			42.94%
2014			41.92%
2009			47.85%
2004			49.59%
2000			46.98%
1995			49.24%
1990			53.49%
1985			46.56%
1980			61.96%
1977			51.39%

Since its formation in 1974, 12 elections were held till date.

List of members elected from Jatani constituency are:^[6][7]

Year	Member	Party
2024	Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray		BJD
2019	Suresh Kumar Routray[8][9]		INC
2014	Bhagirathi Badajena		BJD
2009	Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray		BJD
2004	Sarat Chandra Paikray		BJD
2000	Suresh Kumar Routray		INC
1995	Suresh Kumar Routray		INC
1990	Sarat Chandra Paikray		JD
1985	Suresh Kumar Routray		INC
1980	Suresh Kumar Routray		INC
1977	Suresh Kumar Routray		JP
1974	Satyapriya Mohanty		Utkal Congress

Election Results

2024

Voting were held on 25th May 2024 in 3rd phase of Odisha Assembly Election & 6th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4th June 2024.^[10]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election, Jatani

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray	68,162	39.06	0.82
	BJP	Biswaranjan Badajena	42,941	24.61	8.24
	INC	Santosh Kumar Jena	42,629	24.43	18.51
	Independent	Sujit Kumar Balabantaray	15,309	8.77
	NOTA	None of the above	1,449	0.83	0.03
Majority			25,221
Turnout			174,518
	BJD gain from INC		Swing

2019

In 2019 election, Indian National Congress candidate Suresh Kumar Routray defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray by a margin of 7522 votes.

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Jatani^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Suresh Kumar Routray	68,841	42.94	4.97
	BJD	Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray	61,319	38.24	3.67
	BJP	Biswaranjan Badajena	26,256	16.37	4.64
	NOTA	None of the above	1,284	0.80
Majority			7,522	4.70
Turnout			160,312	67.46
	INC gain from BJD

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Bhagirathi Badajena defeated Indian National Congress candidate Suresh Kumar Routray by a margin of 5747 votes.^[12]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Jatani^[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Bhagirathi Badajena	60,976	41.92	−
	INC	Suresh Kumar Routray	55229	37.97	−
	BJP	Sudipta Kumar Ray	17085	11.74	−
	Independent	Sangram Keshari Rautaray	5549	3.81	−
	Independent	Shankarshna Nayak	2215	1.52	−
	AOP	Namita Pal	1011	0.69	−
	BSP	Mohit Ranjan Behera	932	0.64	−
	Independent	Ashok Kumar Sundaray	908	0.62	−
	NOTA	None of the above	1564	1.08	−
Majority			5747	3.95[b]	−
Turnout			145469	70.35	+9.85 '"`UNIQ−−ref−0000002D−QINU`"'
Registered electors			206,792
	BJD hold

2009

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray defeated Indian National Congress candidate Suresh Kumar Routray by a margin of 14,925 votes.^[13]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Jatani^[14]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray	55,573	47.85	−
	INC	Suresh Kumar Routray	40,648	35.00	−
	Independent	Sarat Paikray	8,756	7.54	−
	BJP	Sudipta Ray	7,812	6.73	−
	SAMO	Bibhuti Bhusan Mishra	964	0.83	−
	Kalinga Sena	Pravat Pradhan	629	0.54	−
	RPD	Kirti Chandra Senapati	610	0.53	−
	BSP	Jaya Prakash Bhanja Deo	607	0.52	−
	RPI(A)	Purna Chandra Naik	534	0.46	−
Majority			14,925	12.85[c]	−
Turnout			1,16,142	60.50	−2.81 '"`UNIQ−−ref−00000037−QINU`"'
Registered electors			1,91,962
	BJD hold

Notes

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