Indian National Congress on Balasore

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 2 OF 12 contested

INC runner-up 7 times

Strike rate

16.7%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 12 published candidatures

Best vote share54.30%in 1984

Worst vote share15.50%in 2019

Average vote share33.93% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1977

Last contested2024

Votes polled here28.92 Lacross all 12 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Indian National Congress 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: 1980 — the seat went to the polls in that year and this party fielded no candidate. The line is broken there. It is not zero.

Every contest

12 candidatures · most recent first

Year	Candidate	Votes	Vote %	Position	Result
2024	Shrikanta Jena	2,37,007	19.10%	3	Lost · 3rd
2019	Navajyoti Patnaik	1,79,403	15.50%	3	Lost · 3rd
2014	Shrikanta Kumar Jena	2,77,517	26.40%	3	Lost · 3rd
2009	Srikant Kumar Jena	3,13,888	35.20%	1	Won
2004	Jayanti Patnaik	3,23,552	39.50%	2	Lost · 2nd
1999	Kanhu Charan Lenka	2,02,286	32.40%	2	Lost · 2nd
1998	Syed Mustafiz Ahmed	2,37,620	35.60%	2	Lost · 2nd
1996	Anadi Charan Sahu	2,86,285	40.40%	2	Lost · 2nd
1991	Janakiballav Pattnaik	2,44,214	41.60%	2	Lost · 2nd
1989	Jayanti Patnaik	2,10,143	32.10%	2	Lost · 2nd
1984	Jayanti Pattanik	2,63,960	54.30%	1	Won
1977	Janaki Balav Patnaik	1,16,043	35.10%	2	Lost · 2nd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

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)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)