Janata Dal on Puri

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 share52.50%in 1989

Worst vote share6.40%in 1998

Average vote share31.78% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1989

Last contested1998

Votes polled here7.63 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	Bijaya Singh Bariha	44,516	6.40%	3	Lost · 3rd
1996	Bijaya Singh Bariha	2,08,387	31.50%	2	Lost · 2nd
1991	Bhabanishankar Hota	1,87,895	36.70%	2	Lost · 2nd
1989	Bhabani Shankar Hota	3,22,270	52.50%	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)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)