Bharatiya Janta Party on Bargarh

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 4 OF 9 contested

BJP runner-up 3 times

Strike rate

44.4%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 9 published candidatures

Best vote share54.70%in 2024

Worst vote share11.90%in 1991

Average vote share34.64% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1991

Last contested2024

Votes polled here27.85 Lacross all 9 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Bharatiya Janta Party vote share · a ringed point is a year they won this seat · a dashed upright is a contest with no point for this party, where the line breaks rather than touching zero.

Did not contest: 1977, 1980, 1984, 1989 — the seat went to the polls in those years and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

9 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	Pradeep Purohit	7,16,359	54.70%	1	Won
2019	Suresh Pujari	5,81,245	46.60%	1	Won
2014	Subash Chouhan	3,72,052	33.10%	2	Lost · 2nd
2009	Radharani Panda	1,57,750	17.20%	3	Lost · 3rd
2004	Bhagirathi Majhi	2,52,557	36.30%	2	Lost · 2nd
1999	Salkhan Murmu	3,00,902	52.10%	1	Won
1998	Salkhan Murmu	2,49,255	41.20%	1	Won
1996	Salkhan Murmu	1,07,424	18.70%	2	Lost · 2nd
1991	Purusottam Naik	47,415	11.90%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Biju Janata Dal Janata Dal Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Bharatiya Lok Dal Indian National Congress (I)Janta Party Janta Party (SECULAR)Independent Bahujan Samaj Party Paschimanchal Vikas Party Communist Party Of India Aam Aadmi Party Kosal Kranti Dal National Apni Party Nationalist Congress Party Samajwadi Party All India Indira Congress (TIWARI)Shiv Sena Ajeya Bharat Party All India Trinamool Congress Rashtriya Janata Dal Doordarshi Party Proutist Bloc Of India