Biju Janata Dal on Bhadrak

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 share57.60%in 1999

Worst vote share37.10%in 2024

Average vote share45.71% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1998

Last contested2024

Votes polled here31.37 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	Manjulata Mandal	4,81,775	37.10%	2	Lost · 2nd
2019	Manjulata Mandal	5,12,305	41.90%	1	Won
2014	Arjun Charan Sethi	5,02,338	46.50%	1	Won
2009	Arjun Charan Sethi	4,16,808	44.80%	1	Won
2004	Brahmananda Panda	4,66,383	50.30%	1	Won
1999	Trilochan Kanungo	4,39,888	57.60%	1	Won
1998	Trilochan Kanungo	3,17,563	41.80%	2	Lost · 2nd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Communist Party Of India Bharatiya Janta Party Bharatiya Lok Dal Indian National Congress (I)Janta Party Janata Dal Janta Party (SECULAR)Independent Jharkhand Party Janata Pary (JP)Lok Dal Bahujan Samaj Party Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST)Karnataka Gana Parishad Samajwadi Party Doordarshi Party Shiv Sena All India Trinamool Congress Rashtriya Janata Dal Aam Aadmi Party Ambedkarite Party Of India Bhatiya Krishi Udyog Sangh Aama Odisha Party Ajeya Bharat Party Kalinga Sena Orissa Vikas Parishad