Biju Janata Dal on Keonjhar

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 5 OF 7 contested

BJD runner-up 2 times

Strike rate

71.4%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 7 published candidatures

Best vote share58.70%in 1999

Worst vote share30.60%in 1998

Average vote share43.89% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1998

Last contested2024

Votes polled here28.22 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	Dhanurjaya Sidu	4,76,881	37.90%	2	Lost · 2nd
2019	Chandrani Murmu	5,26,359	44.70%	1	Won
2014	Sakuntala Laguri	4,34,471	40.10%	1	Won
2009	Yashbant Narayan Singh Laguri	3,89,104	43.60%	1	Won
2004	Mohan Jena	4,52,177	51.60%	1	Won
1999	Jagannath Mallik	3,51,442	58.70%	1	Won
1998	Jagannath Mallik	1,91,591	30.60%	2	Lost · 2nd

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)Independent Socialist Unity Centre Of India Janata Dal (United)Janata Pary (JP)Bahujan Samaj Party Rashtriya Indepndent Morcha Ajeya Bharat Party Bharatiya Manavata Vikas Party Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha Indian National Congress (U)Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Jharkhand Party Manas Lokshakti Dal Doordarshi Party All India Forward Bloc Odisha Jan Morcha Bahujan Mukti Party Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Ajsu Party