Bharatiya Janta Party on Puri

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 1 OF 7 contested

BJP runner-up 1 time

Strike rate

14.3%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 7 published candidatures

Best vote share52.60%in 2024

Worst vote share3.60%in 1989

Average vote share25.16% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1989

Last contested2024

Votes polled here17.83 Lacross all 7 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, 1998, 1999, 2004 — 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

7 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	Sambit Patra	6,29,330	52.60%	1	Won
2019	Dr Sambit Patra	5,26,607	46.40%	2	Lost · 2nd
2014	Ashok Sahu	2,15,763	20.80%	3	Lost · 3rd
2009	Braja Kishore Tripathy	2,09,287	23.00%	3	Lost · 3rd
1996	Bimbadhar Kuanr	1,23,114	18.60%	3	Lost · 3rd
1991	Bimbadhar Kumar	56,641	11.10%	3	Lost · 3rd
1989	Fakir Charan Panigrahi	21,905	3.60%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Biju Janata Dal Janata Dal Bharatiya Lok Dal Indian National Congress (I)Janta Party Janta Party (SECULAR)Bahujan Samaj Party Lok Dal Independent Jharkhand Party Kalinga Sena Ajeya Bharat Party Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha All India Indira Congress (TIWARI)Samata Party Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)Aam Aadmi Party Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Samajwadi Party Communist Party Of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star West Orissa Peoples Front Samajwadi Janata Party (RASHTRIYA)