One can find the following facts interesting about the results of the twin polls in the State.
Incumbent Assembly Speaker Pradip Amat has set a new record as no previous Speaker had won the election while occupying the chair.Former Finance Minister Prafulla Ghadai had broken the trend of sitting Finance Ministers losing elections in the 2009 polls. However, the trend has been set again by the present Finance Minister Prasanna Acharya after his defeat in the Bijepur constituency.
Two senior Congress leaders, who had joined the ruling BJD before the elections, have been defeated. They are Anup Sai and Hema Gamang, who lost in the Brajarajnagar and laxmipur Assembly constituencies, respectively.The victory of two Rajya Sabha members Rabi Narayan Mohapatra and Sashi Bhusan Behera in the Assembly elections would necessitate fresh elections for the two vacant RS seats. Dilip Tirkey, who was defeated in the Sundargarh lok Sabha seat, is not likely to continue as a Rajya Sabha MP.
The newly-formed Samata Kranti Dal, contesting the polls for the first time, has got one Assembly seat with George Tirkey winning from Biramitrapur.Only one of the four film actors who contested the polls came out successful. While the BJD’s Siddhant Mohapatra retained his Brahmapur lok Sabha seat, Aparajita Mohanty and Bijay Mohanty of the Congress lost in the Cuttack and Bhubaneswar lS seats, respectively, and Papu Pompom of the BJD was defeated in the Champua Assembly constituency.
Six doctor-turned politicians have won the Assembly elections. They are Dr Raseswari Panigrahi (Sambalpur), Dr Ramesh Chandra Chyaupatnaik (Brahmapur), Dr Pramod Mallick (Niali), Dr Nrusingh Sahu (Parjang), Dr Prafulla Majhi (Talsara) and Dr Priyanshu Pradhan (Chhatrapur).