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Indian National Congress on Kalahandi

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat
Record on this seat

WON 8 OF 12 contested

INC runner-up 1 time
Strike rate
66.7%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 12 published candidatures
Best vote share65.70%in 1984
Worst vote share22.70%in 2024
Average vote share44.97% mean across contests carrying a share
First contested1977
Last contested2024
Votes polled here33.78 Lacross all 12 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held
Line chart: Indian National Congress vote share in Kalahandi, Lok Sabha, 1977 to 2024. Vertical axis 0 to 70 per cent. Years the party did not contest are left blank rather than plotted at zero. Ringed points are years it won the seat.0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%1977198019841989199119961998199920042009201420192024

Indian National Congress 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 — the seat went to the polls in that year and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

12 candidatures · most recent first
Year Candidate Votes Vote % Position Result
2024 Droupadi Majhi 3,03,199 22.70% 3 Lost · 3rd
2019 Bhakta Charan Das 3,19,202 26.00% 3 Lost · 3rd
2014 Bhakta Charan Das 3,07,967 27.60% 3 Lost · 3rd
2009 Bhakta Charan Das 4,01,736 41.00% 1 Won
2004 Chandra Sekhar Sahu 3,55,973 49.50% 1 Won
1999 Jayanti Patnaik 2,56,581 44.20% 2 Lost · 2nd
1998 Smt. Jayanti Patnaik 2,71,044 48.00% 1 Won
1996 P V Narasimha Rao 3,40,555 61.00% 1 Won
1991 Gopinath Gajapathi Naryandeo 2,35,260 50.70% 1 Won
1989 Gopinath Gajpathi Narayan Deo 2,32,082 47.70% 1 Won
1984 R.Jagannath Rao 2,35,466 65.70% 1 Won
1977 Jagannath Rao R. 1,19,132 55.50% 1 Won

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Bharatiya Janta PartyBiju Janata DalIndian National Congress (I)Janata DalJanta PartyBharatiya Lok DalJanta Party (SECULAR)IndependentCommunist Party Of India (MARXIST)Bahujan Samaj PartySamajwadi PartyBahujan Mukti PartyJharkhand PartyRashtriya Janata DalAmbedkarite Party Of IndiaAjeya Bharat PartyAama Odisha PartyDoordarshi PartyCommunist Party Of India (MARXIST-LENINIST) (LIBERATION)Samruddha OdishaOdisha Jan MorchaAam Aadmi PartyKalinga SenaSamata Kranti Dal

Provisional Candidate-wise results, Lok Sabha, Kalahandi
Publisher
Election Commission of India
Retrieved
2026-09-12
Computed
2026-09-12 17:27 UTC

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