Korei is a

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Jajpur district Jajpur () is a district of Odisha state in eastern India. The Odisha Government carried out a re-organisation of districts of Odisha in 1993. The erstwhile Cuttack district was split into multiple districts with Jajpur being one of them. Th ...

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, India. The area of this state legislature constituency includes

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, Korei block and 9 GPs (Bhotaka, Laxminagar, Pahanga, Badakainchi, Gandhan, Tikarpada, Bahadalpur, Narasinghpur and Mugupal) of Rasulpur block.

Members of the Legislative Assembly

Since its formation in 1974, 12 elections have been held here till 2024. The members elected from Korei constituency are:

Election Results

2024

Voting were held on 1st June 2024 in 4th phase of Odisha Assembly Election & 7th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4th June 2024. In 2024 election,

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candidate Akash Dasnayak defeated

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candidate Sandhyarani Das by a margin of 5,646 votes.

2019

Elections to Korei constituency was held along with 2019 General elections on 29 April 2019. The vote counting was held on 23 May 2019. In 2019 election,

candidate Ashok Kumar Bal defeated

Candidate Biswajeet Nayak by margin of 30724 votes.

2014

In 2014 election,

candidate Akash Dasnayak defeated

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candidate Biswajeet Nayak by a margin of 42,867 votes.

2009

In 2009 election,

candidate Pritiranjan Gharai defeated

candidate Hemalata Khuntia by a margin of 25,112 votes.

Notes

References

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