Surada Assembly constituency

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

Surada is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Ganjam district, Odisha.^[1]

Surada
Constituency No. 129 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Ganjam
Lok Sabha constituency	Aska
Established	1957
Total electors	1,85,720
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Nilamani Bisoyi
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2024

Area of this constituency includes Surada NAC, Belaguntha NAC, Surada Block and Belaguntha Block.^[2][3]

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates[4]
2024			54.71%
2019			50.29%
2014			49.25%
2009			40.41%
2004			56.94%
2000			50.17%
1995			31.77%
1990			57.41%
1985			55.15%
1980			46.41%
1977			56.52%

Since its formation in 1957, 16 elections were held till date.

List of members elected from Surada constituency are:^[5][6]

Year	Member[7]	Party
1957	Biju Patnaik		Indian National Congress
1961	Arjun Naik
1967	Ananta Narayan Singh Deo		Swatantra Party
1971
1974	Sarat Chandra Panda		Indian National Congress
1977	Ananta Narayan Singh Deo		Janata Party
1980	Gantayat Swain		Indian National Congress (I)
1985	Sarat Chandra Panda		Indian National Congress
1990	Shanti Devi		Janata Dal
1995	Ananta Narayan Singh Deo		Bharatiya Janata Party
2000	Usha Rani Panda		Indian National Congress
2004	Kishore Chandra Singh Deo		Bharatiya Janata Party
2009	Purna Chandra Swain		Biju Janata Dal
2014
2019
2024	Nilamani Bisoyi		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2024

Voting were held on 20th May 2024 in 2nd phase of Odisha Assembly Election & 5th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4th June 2024.^[8]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election,Surada

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Nilamani Bisoyi	83,625	54.71	13.62
	BJD	Sanghamitra Swain	55,401	36.25	14.04
	INC	Hari Krishna Rath	7,478	4.89	0.10
	Manas Lokshakti Dal	PRASANT RANAJIT	953	0.62
	Independent	SUDHANSU SEKHAR GOUDA	1,263	0.83
	Independent	ABANI KUMAR GAYA	906	0.59
	Independent	ANIL KUMAR PATHI	733	0.48
	NOTA	None of the above	2,488	1.63
Majority			28,224	18.46
Turnout			1,52,847
	BJP gain from BJD

2019

In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Purna Chandra Swain defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Nilamani Bisoyi by a margin of 13,996 votes.^[9]

2019 Odisha Legislative Assembly election: Surada^[10]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Purna Chandra Swain	76,501	50.29
	BJP	Nilamani Bisoyi	62,505	41.09
	INC	Sangram Keshari Mohanty	7,293	4.79
	Independent	Nirakara Nayak	1,552	1.02
	Independent	Raghu Nath Naik	1,396	0.92
	NOTA	None of the above	2,885	1.9
Majority			13,996	9.2
Turnout			1,52,132	67.9
	BJD hold

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Purna Chandra Swain defeated Indian National Congress candidate Basanta Kumar Bisoyi by a margin of 16,000 votes.^[11]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Surada^[12][13]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Purna Chandra Swain	67,546	49.25	8.84
	INC	Basanta Kumar Bisoyi	51,546	37.58	27.77
	BJP	Bhagabana Panda	9,270	6.76	−0.53
	Independent	Sunil Kumar Mohanti	2,652	1.93
	Independent	Dayanidhi Gouda	1,712	1.25
	Independent	Purna Chandra Patra	1,677	1.22
	NOTA	None of the above	2,745	2.0	−
Majority			16,000	11.67	7.93
Turnout			1,37,148	66.66	8.95
Registered electors			2,05,743
	BJD hold

2009

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Purna Chandra Swain, defeated Independent candidate Nilamani Bisoyi by 4,011 votes.^[14]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Surada^[15]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Purna Chandra Swain	43,299	40.41	−
	Independent	Nilamani Bisoyi	39,288	36.66	−
	INC	Syed Mubarak	10,517	9.81	−
	BJP	Barat Dandpani Patro	7,811	7.29	−
	Independent	Raghunath Naik	3,163	2.95	−
	RSP	Madan Padhy	1,549	1.45	−
	Independent	Bhagaban Nayak	1,533	1.43	−
Majority			4,011	3.74[a]	−
Turnout			1,07,182	57.71	−
	BJD gain from BJP

Notes

1. % of total valid votes