Janata Dal on Kendrapara

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 1 OF 4 contested

JD runner-up 2 times

Strike rate

25%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 4 published candidatures

Best vote share50.20%in 1989

Worst vote share4.40%in 1998

Average vote share31.60% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1989

Last contested1998

Votes polled here6.94 Lacross all 4 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Janata 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: 1977, 1980, 1984, 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

4 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
1998	Lecturer Bullion	26,785	4.40%	3	Lost · 3rd
1996	Padmanava Behera	2,08,907	35.20%	2	Lost · 2nd
1991	Padmanava Behera	1,78,487	36.60%	2	Lost · 2nd
1989	Nakul Nayak	2,79,497	50.20%	1	Won

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janta Party Biju Janata Dal Bharatiya Lok Dal Indian National Congress (I)Janta Party Janta Party (SECULAR)Independent Bahujan Samaj Party Shiv Sena Janata Pary (JP)Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Jharkhand Party Samajwadi Party Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Samruddha Odisha Aam Aadmi Party Akhil Bhartiya Parivar Party Krupaa Party Communist Party Of India (MARXIST-LENINIST) (LIBERATION)Doordarshi Party Republican Party Of India Kalinga Sena Odisha Janata Party Samata Party