Junagarh is a

Vidhan Sabha The State Legislative Assembly, or Vidhan Sabha, or also Saasana Sabha, is a legislative body in the states and union territories of India. In the 28 states and 3 union territories with a unicameral state legislature, it is the sole legislati ...

constituency of

Kalahandi district Kalahandi (locally pronounced ''Kalahani'') is a district of Odisha in India. Archaeological evidence of Stone Age and Iron Age human settlement has been recovered from the region. Asurgarh offered an advanced, well civilised, cultured and ur ...

Odisha Odisha (English: , ), formerly Orissa ( the official name until 2011), is an Indian state located in Eastern India. It is the 8th largest state by area, and the 11th largest by population. The state has the third largest population of ...

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. This constituency includes Junagarh, Junagarh block and Golamunda block. In 2014 election,

Biju Janata Dal The Biju Janata Dal (; BJD) is a regional political party in the Indian state of Odisha founded and led by Naveen Patnaik, the current Chief Minister of Odisha and the son of former Chief Minister of Odisha Biju Patnaik, after whom the party ...

candidat
Captain Dibya Shankar Mishra
defeated

Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British E ...

candidate Gobardhan Dash by a margin of 17,728 votes.

Elected Members

Fourteen elections were held between 1951 and 2019. Elected members from the Junagarh constituency are: *2019: (78): Dibya Shankar Mishra( BJD) *2014: (78): Dibya Shankar Mishra( BJD) *2009: (78): Gobardhan Dash (

Congress A congress is a formal meeting of the representatives of different countries, constituent states, organizations, trade unions, political parties, or other groups. The term originated in Late Middle English to denote an encounter (meeting of ...

) *2004: (98): Himanshu Shekhar Meher (

BJP The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Mo ...

) *2000: (98): Himanshu Shekhar Meher (BJP) *1995: (98):

Bikram Keshari Deo Bikram Keshari Deo (26 November 1952 – 7 October 2009) was a member of the 12th, 13th and 14th Lok Sabha of India. He represented the Kalahandi constituency of Orissa and was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He died on 7 Oct ...

(BJP) *1990: (98): Bikram Keshari Deo (BJP) *1985: (98): Bikram Keshari Deo (

Janata Party The Janata Party ( JP, lit. ''People's Party'') was a political party that was founded as an amalgam of Indian political parties opposed to the Emergency that was imposed between 1975 and 1977 by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi of the Indian Nati ...

) *1980: (98): Maheshwar Barad ( Congress-I) *1977: (98): Maheshwar Barad (Congress) *1974: (98): Udit Pratap Deo (

Swatantra Party The Swatantra Party was an Indian classical liberal political party, that existed from 1959 to 1974. It was founded by C. Rajagopalachari in reaction to what he felt was the Jawaharlal Nehru-dominated Indian National Congress's increasingly soci ...

) *1971: (92): Trinath Sarab (Swatantra Party) *1967: (92): Maheswar Naik (Swatantra Party) *1961: (37): Maheswar Naik (

Ganatantra Parishad The Ganatanra Parishad (GP) or the All India Ganatantra Parishad (AIGP) was a regional political party based in Orissa state in eastern India from 1950 to 1962. This political party was formed by the former rulers of the erstwhile princely states ...

) *

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the United ...

Elected Members

2019 Election Result

2014 Election Result

2009 Election Result

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