Bharatiya Lok Dal on Kalahandi

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 1 contested

BLD runner-up 1 time

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 1 published candidature

Best vote share32.20%in 1977

Worst vote share32.20%in 1977

Average vote share32.20% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1977

Last contested1977

Votes polled here69,043across all 1 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Bharatiya Lok Dal 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: 1980, 1984, 1989, 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, 2019, 2024 — 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

1 candidature · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
1977	Varahagiri Shanker Giri	69,043	32.20%	2	Lost · 2nd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janta Party Biju Janata Dal Indian National Congress (I)Janata Dal Janta Party 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