Communist Party Of India on Bhadrak

State 21 · Lok Sabha · 13 contests on this seat

Record on this seat

WON 2 OF 7 contested

CPI never finished second here

Strike rate

28.6%

wins as a share of contests fought

The party's figures here

counted from 7 published candidatures

Best vote share58.50%in 1989

Worst vote share1.10%in 2014

Average vote share20.11% mean across contests carrying a share

First contested1977

Last contested2014

Votes polled here9.56 Lacross all 7 contests

Vote share by year

vote %, against every contest this seat has held

Communist Party Of India 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, 1984, 2004, 2009, 2019, 2024 — 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
2014	Ramesh Jena	11,930	1.10%	4	Lost · 4th
1999	Akhaya Kumar Pradhan	26,973	3.50%	3	Lost · 3rd
1998	Abani Boral	90,689	11.90%	3	Lost · 3rd
1996	Lokanath Choudhury	44,735	5.60%	4	Lost · 4th
1991	Loknath Choudhury	3,21,635	47.60%	1	Won
1989	Lokanath Choudhary	4,08,057	58.50%	1	Won
1977	Lokanath Choudhury	51,732	12.60%	3	Lost · 3rd

Other parties on this seat

by best finish

Indian National Congress Biju Janata Dal 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