Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency

Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Odisha state in eastern India.

Dhenkanal
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Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateOdisha
Assembly constituenciesDhenkanal
Hindol
Kamakhyanagar
Parjanga
Pallahara
Talcher
Angul
Established1952
Total electors15,28,273
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
PartyBharatiya Janata Party
Elected year2024

Assembly Segments

After delimitation of Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency, the seven legislative assembly segments which constitute this parliamentary constituency are[1]Before delimitation in 2008, legislative assembly segments which constituted this parliamentary constituency were: Birmaharajpur, Athmallik, Angul, Hindol, Dhenkanal, Gondia and Kamakhyanagar.[2]:

# Name District Member Party
55 Dhenkanal Dhenkanal Krushna Chandra Patra BJP
56 Hindol (SC) Seemarani Nayak
57 Kamakhyanagar Satrughan Jena
58 Parjanga Bibhuti Bhusan Pradhan
59 Pallahara Angul Ashok Mohanty
60 Talcher Braja Kishore Pradhan BJD
61 Angul Pratap Chandra Pradhan BJP

Elected Members
Vote share of winning candidates
2024
 
 50.24%
2019
 
 46.14%
2014
 
 33.25%
2009
 
 31.05%
2004
 
 53.59%
1999
 
 61.75%
1998
 
 51.02%
1996
 
 47.65%
1991
 
 51.23%
1989
 
 58.94%
1984
 
 72.74%
1980
 
 63.04%
1977
 
 56.69%
1971
 
 42.23%

Since its formation in 1952, 18 elections have been held till date. It was a two member constituency in 1952.

List of members elected from Dhenkanal constituency are

Year Member Party
As Dhenkanal West Cuttack Constituency
1952[lower-alpha 1] Niranjan Jena INC
Sarangadhar Das Socialist
As Dhenkanal Constituency
1957 Surendra Mohanty AIGP
1962 Baishnab Charan Patnaik INC
1967 Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo SWA
1971 Devendra Satpathy INC
1977 BLD
1980 Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo INC
1984
1989 Bhajaman Behara JD
1991 Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo INC
1996
1998 Tathagata Satpathy BJD
1999 Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo INC
2004 Tathagata Satpathy BJD
2009
2014
2019 Mahesh Sahoo
2024 Rudra Narayan Pany BJP

Election Results

2024

Voting were held on 25th May 2024 in 6th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4th June 2024.[3] In 2024 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Rudra Narayan Pany defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Avinash Samal by a margin of 76,567 votes.

2024 Indian general election: Dhenkanal
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJP Rudra Narayan Pany 598,721 50.24
BJD Avinash Samal 5,22,154 43.82
INC Sashmita Behera 34,730 2.91
NOTA None of the above 13,777 1.16
Majority 76,567 6.42
Turnout 11,91,673 78.01
BJP gain from BJD

2019

In 2019 Indian general election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Mahesh Sahoo defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Rudra Narayan Pany by a margin of 35,412 votes.[4]

2019 Indian general elections: Dhenkanal[5]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJD Mahesh Sahoo 522,884 46.21
BJP Rudra Narayan Pany 487,472 43.08
INC Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo 80,349 7.10
NOTA None of the above 11,254 0.99
Majority 35,412 3.13
Turnout 1,133,213 75.33
BJD hold

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Tathagata Satpathy defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Rudra Narayan Pany by a margin of 1,37,340 votes.

2014 Indian general elections: Dhenkanal
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJD Tathagata Satpathy 453,277 43.50
BJP Rudra Narayan Pany 315,937 30.32
INC Sudhir Kumar Samal 213,794 20.52
NOTA None of the above 13,205 1.27
Majority 137,340 13.18
Turnout 1,042,111 76.43
BJD hold

2009

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Tathagata Satpathy defeated Indian National Congress candidate Chandra Sekhar Tripathi by a margin of 1,86,587 votes.

2009 Indian general elections: Dhenkanal
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJD Tathagata Satpathy 398,568 31.05
INC Chandra Sekhar Tripathi 211,981 16.51
BJP Rudra Narayan Pany 208,296 16.23
Majority 186,587 21.78
Turnout 856,631 66.74
BJD hold

Notes
  1. It was a 2 member constituency

References
  1. Archived 19 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies of Orissa" (PDF). Election Commission of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2009. Retrieved 20 September 2008.
  3. "General Election to Legislative Assembly of Odisha 2024". ECI.
  4. "General Election 2019". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  5. "List of Contesting Candidates (Phase-II) (PC)" (PDF). ceoorissa.nic.in. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Odisha. Retrieved 15 April 2019.

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