Odisha Lok Sabha Election Results Highlights: BJP decimates BJD on Patnaik home turf, wins 20 of 21 seats, INC bags one

BJP has taken the lead after being ahead in 5 seats as against 4 for BJD. These are the first trends in 9 out of 21 Odisha PCs.

According to the News 18, first trends show BJP and BJD are leading in 4 seats each.

According to the Axis My India Today survey, the ruling BJD is predicted to win two seats, while the BJP is expected to win eighteen to twenty seats.

Counting has begun. According to Odisha Exit Poll Result 2024, the surveys show big gains for BJP in Odisha, BJD likely to settle at 3-7 seats. The BJD is predicted to win three to seven seats, while the BJP is predicted to win fifteen to eighteen seats, according to the Jan Ki Baat exit poll. It is predicted that the I.N.D.I.A. alliance will not win any seats.

With only a few minutes to go before the counting for 2024 Lok Sabha Elections begins, here’s a recap of the election battle in Odisha.

The countdown to the 18th Lok Sabha has begun, with the General Election to the House of People 2024 ending on June 16, 2024, and the counting of votes starting on June 4, 8 AM.

Odisha’s high-stakes battle between BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik and Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah gained attention as they campaigned for party nominees.

Odisha’s 4 phased polls for 21 Parliament members in 2019 saw BJD win 12 seats, BJP 8, and INC 1, with the tally for 2024 remaining uncertain.

 In the 2019 general elections, BJD got 43.3 % of the votes polled, BJP got 8 seats 38.9% of the votes polled while INC got 14 % of the votes polled. The total number of votes polled was 2,37,90,972 with a turnout of 76.1% in 21 Parliamentary Constituencies of which 13 were General while 3 were SC and 5 were ST.

Jual Oram and Dilip Tirkey face off in Sundargarh Lok Sabha Seat, while Bobby, Jajpur MLA, faces Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan in the Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJD candidate Pinaki Misra won Puri constituency with 538321 votes, defeating BJP candidate Dr. Sambit Patra by a margin of 11714.

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Voter agents and election staff, according to Bhubaneswar DCP Prateek Singh, have entered counting centers as Odisha prepares for the vote count.

At 8 am on Tuesday, the massive process of tallying votes cast for the Lok Sabha seats in the 2024 elections will get underway soon. Results and trends will start to emerge at 8 a.m. today.

The schedule for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 was announced by the Election Commission of India in March this year. In Lok Sabha elections 2019, Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo of BJP party won with 498086 votes in the Bolangir Lok Sabha constituency. The runner up was Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo of BJD party. The margin of victory was 19516 votes.

In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, BJD candidate Chandra Sekhar Sahu won from the Berhampur garnering 443843 votes. BJD defeated BJP Bhrugu Baxipatra who got 348999 votes. The BJD secured 45 percent.

The schedule for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 was announced by the Election Commission of India in March this year. Sarmistha Sethi of the BJD was the winning candidate from the Jajpur Lok Sabha constituency, in the Lok Sabha elections 2019, securing 544020 votes while 442327 votes were polled in favour of Amiya Kanta Mallick of the BJP. Amiya Kanta Mallick lost by 101693 votes.

In the 2019 general elections, there were 13,99,694 Electors in Sambalpur Constituency while Turnout was 81.3 % with 11,24,455 votes. Nitesh Ganga Deb of Bharatiya Janata Party won with a margin of 0.8% or 9,162 votes. Among the 21 Lok Sabha constituencies in Odisha, Sambalpur witnessed the highest voter turnout at 76.63% in the 6th phase.

The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) is preparing for a significant struggle in the Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency of Odisha, with Bobby, its organisational secretary, challenging Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. Bobby is the BJD’s de facto second in command and is seen as a close aide to Patnaik’s trusted adviser V K Pandian, who has been active in the party’s Sambalpur organisational efforts over the last year.

Sundargarh – Jual Oram of the BJP and Dilip Tirkey of the BJD; Sambalpur: Dharmendra Pradhan (BJP) vs. Pranab Prakash Das (BJD); Keonjhar: Mohan Hembram (INC) vs. Ananta Nayak (BJP) vs. Dhanurjay Siddu (BJD); Dhenkanal: Sashmita Behra (INC) vs. Rudra Narayan Pany (BJP) vs. Avinash Samal (BJD); Puri: Sucheta Mohanty (INC) vs. Sambit Patra (BJP) vs. Arup Patnaik (BJD); Bhubaneswar: Yasir Nawaz (INC) vs. Aprajita Sarangi (BJP) vs. Manmath Routray (BJD); Cuttack: Bhartuhari Mehtab (BJP) vs. Santrupt Mishra (BJD)

In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, the BJD emerged victorious, winning the 12 seats in the state. The BJP followed closely with 8 seats, while the Congress secured just one seat.

The party led by Naveen Patnaik is confident about securing the most seats possible in the state, even though the BJP is putting up a fierce fight. Based on pre-poll surveys, the BJD is facing stiff competition from the saffron party in most parliamentary constituencies.

The Biju Janata Dal (BJD), led by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, is hoping for a strong performance in the general election. Before they departed from the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in 2009, the BJD and BJP were discussing creating a pre-election partnership. It never transpired, however, as BJP State President Manmohan Samal said in March that the saffron party will run alone in the Odisha Assembly and Lok Sabha elections. Counting is to begin today at 8 AM.

In Odisha, polling for the state Assembly’s 147 seats and the general elections of 2024 took place during the final four phases. On May 13, elections were held for a maximum of 28 Assembly seats and 4 Lok Sabha constituencies. On May 20, 35 Assembly seats and 5 Lok Sabha seats, 42 Assembly seats and 6 Lok Sabha constituencies on May 25, and the remaining 6 Lok Sabha seats on June 1. Today on June 4, the votes will be counted.

Voter turnout of 61.63% as of 11:45 PM for phase 7 was recorded in phase-7 for 57 PCs in the ongoing General Elections 2024. Odisha recorded Odisha 70.67 in 6 PC that went to poll in phase-7.

In the 2024 elections, the BJD, led by Naveen Patnaik, plans to win the majority of seats in the Lower House of Parliament. The full list of BJD candidates for the Odisha Lok Sabha in 2024 is as below:

1 Bargarh Parineeta Mishra

2 Sundargarh (ST) Dilip Tirkey

3 Sambalpur Pranab Prakash Das

4 Keonjhar (ST) Dhanurjay Siddu

5 Mayurbhanj (ST) Sudam Marndi

6 Balasore Lekhashree Samantsinghar

7 Bhadrak (SC) Manjulata Mandal

8 Jajpur (SC) Sarmistha Sethi

9 Dhenkanal Avinash Samal

10 Bolangir Surendra Singh Bhoi

11 Kalahandi Lambodhar Nial

12 Nabarangpur (ST) Pradeep Majhi

13 Kandhamal Achyuta Samanta

14 Cuttack Santrupt Mishra

15 Kendrapara Anshuman Mohanty

16 Jagatsinghpur (SC) Rajashree Mallick

17 Puri Arup Patnaik

18 Bhubaneswar Manmath Routray

19 Aska Ranjita Sahu

20 Berhampur Bhrugu Baxipatra

21 Koraput (SC) Kausalya Hikaka

Union Minister Piyush Goyal last week said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was likely to emerge as the largest party in Odisha by winning 18 out of 21 seats in Odisha.

Voter turnout of 63.37 % has been recorded in phase-6 for 58 PCs in the ongoing General Elections 2024. Odisha recorded Odisha 74.45% in 6 PC that went to poll in phase-6

Voter Turnout in PCs in phase-6

Bhubaneswar 64.49 %

Cuttack 71.20 %

Dhenkanal 78.01 %

Keonjhar 78.97 %

Puri 75.43 %

Sambalpur 79.50 %

Sundargarh: Jual Oram of the BJP and Dilip Tirkey of the BJD

Sambalpur: Dharmendra Pradhan (BJP) vs. Pranab Prakash Das (BJD)

Keonjhar: Mohan Hembram (INC) vs. Ananta Nayak (BJP) vs. Dhanurjay Siddu (BJD)

Dhenkanal: Sashmita Behra (INC) vs. Rudra Narayan Pany (BJP) vs. Avinash Samal (BJD)

Puri: Sucheta Mohanty (INC) vs. Sambit Patra (BJP) vs. Arup Patnaik (BJD)

Bhubaneswar: Yasir Nawaz (INC) vs. Aprajita Sarangi (BJP) vs. Manmath Routray (BJD)

Cuttack: Bhartuhari Mehtab (BJP) vs. Santrupt Mishra (BJD)

Paika community and slum dwellers hold the key in the prestigious Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency from where former IAS officer and sitting BJP MP Aparajita Sarangi and BJD candidate Manmath Routray are seeking votes claiming that their party has done a lot of development work in the area. Yasir Nawaz, carrying the banner for the Indian National Congress is the other prominent contender.

The Paika community has a sizable number of voters in Khurda, Begunia and Jatni assembly segments under the Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency.

Paika were originally a class of military retainers recruited since the 16th century by kings in Odisha from a variety of social groups to render martial services in return for hereditary rent-free land and titles.

Pinaki Misra of the BJD won the Puri constituency in the Lok Sabha elections 2019, securing 538321 votes while 526607 votes were polled in favour of Dr Sambit Patra of the BJP. Pinaki Misra won with a massive margin of 11714.

Puri constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha/Parliamentary constituencies in Odisha. Going by past elections, Puri, where the famous Lord Jagannath temple is situated, has never been an easy playing field for the BJP. It is the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) that has ruled the city historically. The party has won the seat in five consecutive Lok Sabha elections. The BJD has won Puri seats in 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, and 2014.

In Cuttack, the Biju Janata Dal has an advantage. However, the incumbent party is on unstable ground this time, owing primarily to the BJP‘s rise in Odisha. Cuttack is no exception, with the saffron party putting up a stiff fight against the BJD.

Bhartruhari Mahtab, a six-time MP, won the Cuttack constituency for the Biju Janata Dal in 2019, but moved to the Bharatiya Janata Party this year. Mahtab has been given the BJP ticket for the sixth phase of the ongoing general elections, which were conducted on May 25, while Santrupt Mishra of the BJD is the other main contender.

Cuttack Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Odisha. The total number of voters at Cuttack parliamentary seat is approximately 1518996 as per 2019 Lok Sabha Election stats. Voter turnout at Cuttack parliamentary seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha Election was 69.81.

The Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency in Odisha is preparing for a high-profile struggle after the ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) fielded its organizational secretary and sitting Jajpur MLA, Pranab Prakash Das popularly known as Bobby, against Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan, the BJP‘s choice for the position.

After a ten-year break, two political heavyweights, Jual Oram of the BJP and Dilip Tirkey of the BJD, are set to square off in the Sundargarh Lok Sabha Seat.