Janta Party on Puri

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 2 contested

JP runner-up 1 time

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 2 published candidatures

Best vote share25.60%in 1984

Worst vote share14.90%in 1980

Average vote share20.25% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1980

Last contested1984

Votes polled here1.61 Lacross 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	Sairindri Nayak	1,10,002	25.60%	2	Lost · 2nd
1980	Prasanna Kumar Acharya	50,775	14.90%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Bharatiya Janta Party Biju Janata Dal Janata Dal Bharatiya Lok Dal Indian National Congress (I)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)