Odisha Lok Sabha Election Results 2024 highlights: BJP maintains leads in 19 of 21 seats

Former Union Minister and sitting MP Jual Oram of BJP was leading by 77,749 votes over his nearest rival and former Indian Hockey captain Dilip Tirkey of BJD, according to ECI.

While Oram secured 2,69,571 votes, Tirkey bagged 1,91822 votes at 1.28 pm.

Congress candidate Janadran Dehury secured only 1,46,533 votes.

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BJP national vice-president Baijayant Panda was leading in the Kendrapara Lok Sabha constituency in Odisha by 13,714 votes, according to the Election Commission.

Anshusman Mohanty of the BJD was at the second spot, while Congress candidate Siddharth Swarup Dash was in the third position.

Sambit Patra, who recently found himself in hot water over his comments, is leading by a considerable margin from the Puri constituency. Patra has been a prominent spokesperson for the BJP, a regular on TV debates over the years. The BJP has never won Puri that comprises seven Assembly seats carved out of Puri, Khordha and Nayagarh districts. In 2019, Mr. Patra lost the seat by less than 12,000 votes to the BJD’s Pinaki Misra. Despite not being a local, the party has given him another opportunity to contest. 

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Besides Jajpur and Kandhamal, where BJD is leading, the Bharatiya Janata Party is leading in 17 of the 21 Lok Sabha seats from Odisha. Congress is leading from the remaining two seats of Kandhamal and Koraput. 

Ahead of the counting day, the Opposition-led INDIA bloc on Sunday had asked the poll body to issue directions to Returning Officers to ensure that postal ballots are counted and their results declared before the outcome of the EVMs is announced. In a letter to the ECI, the Opposition leaders highlighted that the Conduct of Election Rules, 1961 states that the Returning Officer has to begin the process of counting postal ballots first. However, they claimed that this statutory practice was repealed and given a “go-by” by the poll body despite its 2019 guidelines to this effect.

As per early trends, Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan is leading from the Sambalpur seat. 

Sambalpur in western Odisha is set for a high-octane electoral battle between BJP leader and Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and Biju Janata Dal (BJD) organising secretary Pranab Prakash Das.

The seat falls in the BJP stronghold of western Odisha where the party has a wide acceptance that is largely attributed to the presence of organisations affiliated to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. 

Baijayant Panda, BJP national vice president, is leading in Kendrapara Lok Sabha seat. This constituency has been a BJD stronghold since 1998

Congress candidates are leading from two seats of Sundargarh and Koraput, where the party has fielded Janardan Dehury and Saptagiri Sankar Ulaka respectively. 

BJP national spokesperson Aparajita Sarangi is leading from Bhubaneswar Lok Seat by 54 votes. 

The prestigious Bhubaneswar seat is being fought hard between the BJP’s Aparajita Sarangi, a former IAS officer and sitting MP, and the BJD’s Manmath Routray, who is making his electoral debut.

BJP’s Ananta Naik has established an early lead from Keonjhar over his Congress rival Dhanurjaya Sidu. 

As per the Election Commission of India, Bharatiya Janata Party’s Pradeep Purohit has established an early lead from the Bargarh Lok Sabha constituency. 

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