Bahujan Samaj Party on Balasore

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 0 OF 4 contested

BSP never finished second here

Strike rate

0%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 4 published candidatures

Best vote share0.80%in 2009

Worst vote share0.20%in 2024

Average vote share0.50% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1989

Last contested2024

Votes polled here17,506across all 4 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Bahujan Samaj 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, 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2004, 2019 — 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
2024	Rajat Kumar Behera	2,920	0.20%	4	Lost · 4th
2014	Bichitra Nanda Das	3,240	0.30%	7	Lost · 7th
2009	Shradhanjali Pradhan	6,980	0.80%	8	Lost · 8th
1989	Banudhar Sethy	4,366	0.70%	4	Lost · 4th

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 Indian National Congress (U)Nationalist Congress Party Independent Bira Oriya Party Janata Pary (JP)All India Trinamool Congress Jharkhand Mukti Morcha Ajeya Bharat Party Communist Party Of India Jharkhand Party Proutist Sarva Samaj Samiti Samajwadi Party Barat Desam Labour Party National Apni Party Rashtriya Janata Dal Samruddha Odisha Bharatiya Republican Paksha Shiv Sena Doordarshi Party Jana Hitkari Party Aam Aadmi Party Ambedkar National Congress Krupaa Party Purvanchal Janta Party (Secular)Pragatishil Samajwadi Party (Lohia)