Bharatiya Janta Party on Kalahandi

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 3 OF 8 contested

BJP runner-up 3 times

Strike rate

37.5%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 8 published candidatures

Best vote share53.50%in 1999

Worst vote share7.10%in 1991

Average vote share33.94% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1991

Last contested2024

Votes polled here23.98 Lacross all 8 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, 1996 — 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

8 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	Malvika Devi	5,44,303	40.80%	1	Won
2019	Basanta Kumar Panda	4,33,074	35.30%	1	Won
2014	Pradipta Kumar Naik	3,14,524	28.10%	2	Lost · 2nd
2009	Bikram Keshari Deo	2,21,851	22.60%	3	Lost · 3rd
2004	Anadi Sahu	3,04,316	42.30%	2	Lost · 2nd
1999	Anadicharan Sahu	3,10,704	53.50%	1	Won
1998	Gopinath Gajapati Narayandeo	2,35,804	41.80%	2	Lost · 2nd
1991	Bipin Bihary Ratho	32,938	7.10%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Biju Janata Dal Indian National Congress (I)Janata Dal Janta Party Bharatiya Lok Dal Janta Party (SECULAR)Independent Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Bahujan Samaj Party Samajwadi Party Bahujan Mukti Party Jharkhand Party Rashtriya Janata Dal Ambedkarite Party Of India Ajeya Bharat Party Aama Odisha Party Doordarshi Party Communist Party Of India (MARXIST-LENINIST) (LIBERATION)Samruddha Odisha Odisha Jan Morcha Aam Aadmi Party Kalinga Sena Samata Kranti Dal