Janta Party on Kandhamal

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 2 contested

JP runner-up 2 times

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 2 published candidatures

Best vote share26.90%in 1984

Worst vote share16.50%in 1980

Average vote share21.70% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1980

Last contested1984

Votes polled here96,473across all 2 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

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, 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

2 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
1984	Jabab Majhi	68,570	26.90%	2	Lost · 2nd
1980	Prahalad Dora	27,903	16.50%	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 Bharatiya Lok Dal Independent Bahujan Samaj Party Janta Party (SECULAR)Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star Indian National Congress (U)Jharkhand Party Manas Lokshakti Dal Rashtriya Janata Dal Samajwadi Party Doordarshi Party Aam Aadmi Party Aama Odisha Party National Jan Dal Kalinga Sena