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| 2 | Aul (Odisha Vidhan Sabha constituency) - 2009 Election Results |  |  |  |  |  |
| 3 | Party | Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ± |
| 4 | - | BJD | Pratap Keshari Deb | 72,012 | 50.00 | 3.08 |
| 5 | - | INC | Devendra Sharma | 66,135 | 45.92 | 0.76 |
| 6 | - | BJP | Braja Sundar Bhuyan | 3,358 | 2.33 | - |
| 7 | - | CPI(ML) Liberation | Bidhan Chandra Das | 930 | 0.65 | - |
| 8 | - | BSP | Akshaya Kumar Mallik | 842 | 0.58 | - |
| 9 | - | SAMO | Pravati Sahu | 409 | 0.28 | - |
| 10 | - | RPI(A) | Prasant Kumar Nayak | 344 | 0.24 | - |
| 11 | Majority | Majority | Majority | 5,877 | 4.08 | - |
| 12 | Turnout | Turnout | Turnout | 1,44,062 | 63.11 | 0.41 |
| 13 | Registered electors | Registered electors | Registered electors | 2,28,257 | - | - |
| 14 | - | BJD hold | BJD hold | BJD hold | BJD hold | BJD hold |

Question: By how many votes did Pratap Keshari Deb defeat Devendra Sharma by?
Answer: In the 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate, Pratap Keshari Deb, defeated Indian National Congress candidate, Devendra Sharma, by a margin of 5,877 votes.