Bharatiya Janta Party on Sambalpur

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 2 OF 6 contested

BJP runner-up 1 time

Strike rate

33.3%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 6 published candidatures

Best vote share49.50%in 2024

Worst vote share11.30%in 1991

Average vote share28.08% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1991

Last contested2024

Votes polled here17.09 Lacross all 6 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, 1989, 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

6 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	Dharmendra Pradhan	5,92,162	49.50%	1	Won
2019	Nitesh Ganga Deb	4,73,770	42.10%	1	Won
2014	Suresh Pujari	3,28,042	33.30%	2	Lost · 2nd
2009	Surendra Lath	1,50,910	18.90%	3	Lost · 3rd
1996	Bishnu Charan Sethy	96,566	13.40%	3	Lost · 3rd
1991	Bishnu Charan Sethi	67,808	11.30%	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)Independent Bahujan Samaj Party Janata Pary (JP)Ajeya Bharat Party Jharkhand Party Aam Aadmi Party Ambedkarite Party Of India Proutist Bloc Of India Shiv Sena Kosal Kranti Dal Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Ambedkar National Congress Orissa Vikas Parishad Republican Party Of India Pragatishil Samajwadi Party (Lohia)Doordarshi Party Gondvana Gantantra Party Kosal Janata Dal Proutist Bloc India Paschimanchal Vikas Party Bharat Prabhat Party Bharatiya Nyay-Adhikar Raksha Party National Jan Dal Rashtriya Manav Party