Kantabanji Assembly constituency

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

Kantabanji
Constituency No. 70 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateOdisha
DistrictBalangir
LS constituencyBolangir
Established1961
Total electors2,41,337[1][a]
ReservationNone
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2024

Kantabanji is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Balangir district, Odisha.[2]

This constituency includes Kantabanji, Turekela block, Bangomunda block and Muribahal block.[3][4]

In 2019, the Kantabanji Legislative Assembly Indian National Congress won by 128 votes.[5] Since 2019 the, MLA from the Kantabanji Assembly Constituency is Santosh Singh Saluja INC, who won the seat in Odisha state assembly elections 2019, Previous MLAs from this seat were Haji Mohammad Ayyub Khanof the Biju Janata Dal, who won the seat in 2009 Odisha state assembly elections. Previous MLAs from this seat were independent candidate Haji Mohammad Ayub Khan in 2004,[6] Prasanna Pal of JD in 1990, independent candidate Chaitanya Pradhan in 1985, Prasanna Kumar Pal representing INC (I) in 1980 and representing INC in 1977.

Kantabanji is part of Bolangir (Lok Sabha constituency).[7]

  1. ^ "CONSTITUENCY-WISE ELECTOR INFORMATION" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
  2. ^ "Orissa Assembly Election 2009". empoweringindia.org. Retrieved 16 March 2014. Constituency: Kantabanji (70) District : Bolangir
  3. ^ Assembly Constituencies and their Extent
  4. ^ Seats of Odisha
  5. ^ "Kantabanji Assembly Election Result 2019". newstrend.news. Newstrend. Retrieved 15 March 2020.
  6. ^ "Statistical Report on General Election, 2004 to the Legislative Assembly of Orissa". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  7. ^ "Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies of Odisha" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 November 2005. Retrieved 21 September 2008.


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