Bharatiya Janta Party on Balasore

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 share45.50%in 2024

Worst vote share5.20%in 1991

Average vote share25.52% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1991

Last contested2024

Votes polled here16.48 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	Pratap Chandra Sarangi	5,63,865	45.50%	1	Won
2019	Pratap Chandra Sarangi	4,83,858	41.80%	1	Won
2014	Pratap Chandra Sarangi	2,91,943	27.80%	2	Lost · 2nd
2009	Mahamegha Bahan Aira Kharabela Swain	2,19,908	24.60%	3	Lost · 3rd
1996	Nayan Prasad	57,890	8.20%	3	Lost · 3rd
1991	Nayanranjan Bhagat	30,421	5.20%	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 Indian National Congress (U)Nationalist Congress Party Independent Bira Oriya Party Janata Pary (JP)Bahujan Samaj Party 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)