Biju Janata Dal on Puri

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 6 OF 7 contested

BJD runner-up 1 time

Strike rate

85.7%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 7 published candidatures

Best vote share56.80%in 1999

Worst vote share43.80%in 2024

Average vote share48.49% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1998

Last contested2024

Votes polled here31.23 Lacross all 7 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Biju 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, 1989, 1991, 1996 — 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	Arup Mohan Patnaik	5,24,621	43.80%	2	Lost · 2nd
2019	Pinaki Misra	5,38,321	47.40%	1	Won
2014	Pinaki Misra	5,23,161	50.30%	1	Won
2009	Pinaki Misra	4,36,961	48.00%	1	Won
2004	Prasanna Acharya	3,90,556	48.10%	1	Won
1999	Prasanna Acharya	3,98,597	56.80%	1	Won
1998	Prasanna Acharya	3,10,870	45.00%	1	Won

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janta Party 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)