Barabati-Cuttack Assembly constituency

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

Barabati-Cuttack
Constituency No. 90 for the Odisha Legislative Assembly
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
District	Cuttack
LS constituency	Cuttack
Established	2009
Total electors	199,965[1][a]
Reservation	None
Member of Legislative Assembly
17th Odisha Legislative Assembly
Incumbent Sofia Firdous
Party	Indian National Congress
Elected year	2024

Barabati-Cuttack is a Vidhan Sabha constituency of Cuttack district, Odisha, India.

This constituency includes 25 wards of Cuttack.[2][3]

The constituency was formed in 2008 Delimitation[4] and went for polls in 2009 election.

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates
2009			53.61%
2014			45.8%
2019			37.57%
2024			37.86%

Since its formation in 2009, 4 elections were held till date.

List of members elected from Barabati-Cuttack constituency are:

Year	Member	Party
Before 2009 : See Cuttack City
2009	Debashish Samantaray		Biju Janata Dal
2014
2019	Mohammed Moquim		Indian National Congress
2024	Sofia Firdous

Election Results

2024

Voting were held on 25 May 2024 in 3rd phase of Odisha Assembly Election & 6th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4 June 2024.[5]

2024 Odisha Vidhan Sabha Election, Barabati-Cuttack

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sofia Firdous	53,339	37.86	0.29
	BJP	Purnachandra Mohapatra	45,338	32.18	6.88
	BJD	Prakash Behera	40,035	28.42	6.29
	NOTA	None of the above	585	0.42	0.55
Majority			8,001	5.68
Turnout			140,887	55.17
Registered electors			238,450
	INC hold

2019

In 2019 election, Indian National Congress candidate Mohammed Moquim defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Debashish Samantaray by a margin of 3827 votes.[6]

2019 Vidhan Sabha Election, Barabati-Cuttack[7]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Mohammed Moquim	50,244	37.57
	BJD	Debashish Samantaray	48101	34.71
	BJP	Sameer Dey	33825	25.30
	AAP	Shaikh Muntaqeem Buksh	268	0.20	−
	HM	Sheetal Kinnar	210	0.16
	SUCI(C)	Priyadarshan Pavel	313	0.23	−
	Kalinga Sena	Jaya Shankar Acharya	217	0.16	−
	Krupa Dal	Biswanath Rout	165	0.12	−
	Independent	Hemanta Behera	761	0.57	−
	NOTA	None of the above	1298	0.97
Majority			3827	2.86
Registered electors			2,27,777[8]
Turnout			1,33,718	56.71
	INC gain from BJD

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Debashish Samantaray defeated Indian National Congress candidate Mohammed Moquim by a margin of 14,289 votes.[9]

2014 Vidhan Sabha Election, Barabati-Cuttack

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Debashish Samantaray	57,663	45.8	−
	INC	Mohammed Moquim	43,335	34.44	−
	BJP	Pradeep Swain	20,552	16.33	−
	NOTA	None of the above	1238	0.98	−
Majority			14,289	11.36
Turnout			125824	59.85
Registered electors			1,99,965
	BJD hold

2009

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Debashish Samantaray defeated Indian National Congress candidate Suresh Mohapatra by a margin of 24,485 votes.[10][11]

2009 Vidhan Sabha Election, Barabati-Cuttack[12]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Debashish Samantaray	52,097	53.61	−
	INC	Suresh Mohapatra	27,612	28.41	−
	BJP	Samir Dey	15,131	15.57	−
	Independent	Subhash Sharma	639	0.66	−
	BSP	Sk. Muntaqeem Buksh	606	0.62	−
	Independent	Shaikh Mamiluddin Ahmed	226	0.23	−
	AJSU	Alok Prasad Nanda	224	0.23	−
	SP	Geeta Chayani	220	0.23	−
	Jan Hitkari Party	Dr. Guru Prasad Mohanty	177	0.18	−
	Independent	Amarendra Rath	130	0.13	−
	JD(U)	Sanjit Kumar Samal	120	0.12	−
Majority			24,485	25.19[b]	−
Turnout			97,187	50.55	−
Registered electors			1,92,277
	BJD win (new seat)

Notes

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

References

1. "CONSTITUENCY-WISE ELECTOR INFORMATION" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Retrieved 16 March 2014.
2. "Schedule – XIII of Constituencies Order, 2008 of Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly constituencies" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 October 2010. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
3. Seats of Odisha
4. "Delimitation 2008" (PDF). ECI.
5. "General Election to Legislative Assembly of Odisha 2024". ECI.
6. "State Election, 2019 to the Legislative Assembly of Odisha". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
7. "List of Contesting Candidates(Phase-III) (AC)" (PDF). ceoorissa.nic.in. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Odisha. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
8. "CONSTITUENCY-WISE ELECTOR INFORMATION" (PDF).
9. "Triangular fight likely for Barabati-Cuttack seat". OrissaPOST. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
10. "Orissa Election Result 2009 With Vote Margin". leadtech.in. Archived from the original on 27 May 2013. Retrieved 16 April 2014. 24485
11. "Lobbying begins for new seats in Cuttack". The New Indian Express. Archived from the original on 22 April 2014.
12. "Statistical Report on General Election, 2009 to the LEgislative Assembly of Orissa". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 6 October 2021.

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