Kendrapara Lok Sabha constituency

{{Infobox Indian constituency

| type = LS

| name = Kendrapara
{{Small|OD-15}}

| map_image = {{Maplink|frame=yes|plain=y|frame-width=300|frame-height=300|frame-align=center|type=shape|from=Lok Sabha constituencies/2019/Odisha/Kendrapara.map}}

| map_caption = Interactive Map Outlining Kendrapara Lok Sabha constituency

| state = Odisha

| established = 1952

| reservation = None

| electors = 17,95,725{{efn|as on 2024}}{{efn|as data published by election commission}}

| incumbent_image = Baijayant Panda MP 2024.jpg

| mp = Baijayant Panda

| party = {{flagicon image|BJP flag.svg}}BJP

| latest_election_year = 2024

| assembly_cons = Salipur
Mahanga
Patkura
Kendrapara
Aul
Rajanagar
Mahakalapada

}}

Kendrapara Lok Sabha Constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) Constituencies in Odisha state in Eastern India.

Assembly Segments

Assembly Constituencies which constitute this Parliamentary Constituency, after delimitation of Parliamentary Constituencies and Legislative Assembly Constituencies of 2008 are:{{cite web|url=http://www.electionsinindia.com/odisha/kendrapara/electiondata.aspx|title = Assembly Constituencies under Kendrapara Parliamentary Constituency |access-date=25 March 2014}}

class="wikitable sortable"

!Name

!District

!Member

! colspan="2" |Party

! colspan="2" |Leading

|Salipur

| rowspan="2" |Cuttack

|Prasanta Behera

|{{party name with color|Biju Janata Dal}}

|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|Mahanga

|Sarada Prasad Padhan

|{{party name with color|Independent}}

|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|Patkura

| rowspan="5" |Kendrapara

|Arvind Mohapatra

|{{party name with color|Biju Janata Dal}}

|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|Kendrapara (SC)

|Ganeswar Behera

|{{party name with color|Biju Janata Dal}}

|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|Aul

|Pratap Keshari Deb

|{{party name with color|Biju Janata Dal}}

|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

|Rajanagar

|Dhruba Charan Sahoo

|{{party name with color|Biju Janata Dal}}

100

|Mahakalapada

|Durga Prasan Nayak

|{{party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

Assembly Constituencies which constituted this Parliamentary Constituency, before delimitation of Parliamentary Constituencies and Legislative Assembly Constituencies of 2008 are:{{cite web

|url=http://archive.eci.gov.in/se2000/background/S18/Orissa_AC_Dist_PC.pdf

|title=Assembly Constituencies - Corresponding Districts and Parliamentary Constituencies of Orissa

|publisher=Election Commission of India

|access-date=2008-09-20

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090304184320/http://archive.eci.gov.in/se2000/background/S18/Orissa_AC_Dist_PC.pdf

|archive-date=2009-03-04 }} Aul, Pattamundai, Rajnagar, Kendrapara, Patkura, Kisannagar and Mahanga.

Elected Members

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|float=right

|title= Vote share of winning candidates

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|width=300px

|barwidth=275px

|bars=

{{bar percent|2024|{{party color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}|48.21}}

{{bar percent|2019|{{party color|Biju Janata Dal}}|50.88}}

{{bar percent|2014|{{party color|Biju Janata Dal}}|38.58}}

{{bar percent|2009|{{party color|Biju Janata Dal}}|35.04}}

{{bar percent|2004|{{party color|Biju Janata Dal}}|54.20}}

{{bar percent|1999|{{party color|Biju Janata Dal}}|57.91}}

{{bar percent|1998|{{party color|Biju Janata Dal}}|43.27}}

{{bar percent|1996|{{party color|Janata Dal}}|50.51}}

{{bar percent|1991|{{party color|Janata Dal}}|50.6}}

{{bar percent|1989|{{party color|Janata Dal}}|56.44}}

{{bar percent|1985 (bypoll)|{{party color|Janata Party}}|65.60}}

{{bar percent|1984|{{party color|Janata Party}}|50.14}}

{{bar percent|1980|{{party color|Janata Party (Secular)}}|43.04}}

{{bar percent|1977|{{party color|Bharatiya Lok Dal}}|68.64}}

{{bar percent|1971|{{party color|Utkal Congress}}|34.78}}

}}

Since its formation in 1952, 19 elections have been held till date including one bypoll in 1985. It was a two member constituency in 1957.

Elected members from the Kendrapara constituency are:{{cite web|title=Kendrapara Lok Sabha (General) Elections Result|url=http://www.elections.in/orissa/parliamentary-constituencies/kendrapara.html|access-date=25 March 2014}}

class="wikitable sortable"

!Year

!Member

! colspan="2" |Party

1952

|Nityanand Kanungo

|{{full party name with color|Indian National Congress}}

rowspan="2" |1957{{efn|It was a 2 member constituency}}

|Surendranath Dwivedy

|{{full party name with color|rowspan=4|Praja Socialist Party}}

Baishnab Charan Mallick

1962

| rowspan="2" |Surendranath Dwivedy

1967

1971

|Surendra Mohanty

|{{full party name with color|Utkal Congress}}

1977

| rowspan="3" |Biju Patnaik

|{{full party name with color|Bharatiya Lok Dal}}

1980

|{{full party name with color|Janata Party (Secular)|dab=yes}}

1984

|{{full party name with color|rowspan=2|Janata Party}}

1985 (bypoll){{efn|Resignation of Biju Patnaik}}{{Cite web |title=IndiaVotes PC Bye Election: Kendrapara 1985 |url=https://www.indiavotes.com/pc/byeDetail/www.indiavotes.com/pc/byeDetail/275 |access-date=2025-07-06 |website=IndiaVotes}}

|Sarat Kumar Deb

1989

| rowspan="2" |Rabi Ray

|{{full party name with color|rowspan=3|Janata Dal}}

| rowspan="2" |Prabhat Kumar Samantaray

|{{full party name with color|rowspan=6|Biju Janata Dal}}

1999

2004

|Archana Nayak

2009{{Cite web |title=IndiaVotes PC: Kendrapara 2009 |url=https://www.indiavotes.com/pc/www.indiavotes.com/pc/detailsearch?eid=15&pcname=Kendrapara&submit= |access-date=2025-07-06 |website=IndiaVotes}}

| rowspan="2" |Baijayant Panda

2014

2019{{Cite web |title=IndiaVotes PC: Kendrapara 2019 |url=https://www.indiavotes.com/pc/www.indiavotes.com/pc/detailsearch?eid=17&pcname=Kendrapara&submit= |access-date=2025-07-06 |website=IndiaVotes}}

|Anubhav Mohanty

2024{{Cite web |title=Kendrapara lok sabha election results 2024: Kendrapara Winning Candidates List and Vote Share |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/elections/lok-sabha/odisha/kendrapara-constituency-result-18515 |access-date=2025-07-06 |website=India Today |language=en}}

|Baijayant Panda

|{{full party name with color|Bharatiya Janata Party}}

Election Results

= 2024 =

Voting were held on 1 June 2024 in 7th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4 June 2024.{{Cite web |title=General Election to Legislative Assembly of Odisha 2024 |url=https://elections24.eci.gov.in/election-details-odisa.html |website=ECI}} In 2024 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Baijayant Panda defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Anshuman Mohanty by a margin of 66,536 votes.

{{Election box begin |

|title = 2024 Indian general election: Kendrapara}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|candidate = Baijayant Panda

|votes = 6,15,705

|percentage = 48.21

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Biju Janata Dal

|candidate = Anshuman Mohanty

|votes = 5,49,169

|percentage = 43.00

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Indian National Congress

|candidate = Sidharth Swarup Das

|votes = 94,832

|percentage = 7.43

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = None of the above

|candidate = None of the above

|votes = 5,815

|percentage = 0.46

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 66,536

|percentage = 5.21

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 12,83,464

|percentage = 71.47

|change =

}}

{{Election box gain with party link no swing|

|winner = Bharatiya Janata Party

|loser = Biju Janata Dal

}}

= 2019 =

In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Anubhav Mohanty defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Baijayant Panda by a margin of 1,52,584 votes.

{{Election box begin|

|title = 2019 Indian general elections: Kendrapara{{cite web |title=List of Contesting Candidates (Phase-IV) (PC) |url=http://www.ceoorissa.nic.in/docs/Election/2019/Form7A/Phase4/List%20of%20Contesting%20Candidates%20%284th%20Phase-PC%20Wise%29.pdf|website=ceoorissa.nic.in |publisher=Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Odisha |access-date=18 April 2019}}{{cite news |title=Lok Sabha Elections 2019 candidate list for Odisha |url=https://www.businessinsider.in/lok-sabha-elections-2019-candidate-list-for-odisha/articleshow/68686594.cms |access-date=18 April 2019 |work=Business Insider India |archive-date=10 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410080632/https://www.businessinsider.in/lok-sabha-elections-2019-candidate-list-for-odisha/articleshow/68686594.cms |url-status=dead }}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Biju Janata Dal

|candidate = Anubhav Mohanty

|votes = 6,28,939

|percentage = 50.87

|change = {{decrease}}1.85

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|candidate = Baijayant Panda

|votes = 4,47,456

|percentage = 38.53

|change = {{increase}}28.13

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Indian National Congress

|candidate = Dharanidhar Nayak

|votes = 1,13,841

|percentage = 9.21

|change = {{decrease}}25.19

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Samajwadi Party

|candidate = Rabindra Nath Behera

|votes = 5,138

|percentage = 0.42

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate

|party = KP

|candidate = Srikanta Samal

|votes = 1,868

|percentage = 0.15

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Independent

|candidate = Santosh Kumar Das

|votes = 1,456

|percentage = 0.12

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Independent

|candidate = Santosh Kumar Patra

|votes = 2,281

|percentage = 0.18

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = None of the above

|candidate = None of the above

|votes = 6,588

|percentage = 0.53

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 1,52,584

|percentage = 12.32

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 12,38,488

|percentage = 72.39

|change =

}}

{{Election box hold with party link|

|winner = Biju Janata Dal

|swing = {{decrease}}13.14

}}

=2014=

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Baijayant Panda defeated Indian National Congress candidate Dharanidhar Nayak by a margin of 2,09,108 votes.{{cite web|title=Odisha Result Status|url=http://eciresults.nic.in/statewiseS18.htm?st=S18|publisher=ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA|access-date=31 May 2014|archive-date=28 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140528011759/http://eciresults.nic.in/statewiseS18.htm?st=S18|url-status=dead}}

{{Election box begin|

|title = 2014 Indian general elections: Kendrapara{{cite web |url=https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/3631-orissa-2014/ |title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2014 to the Legislative Assembly of Orissa |publisher=Election Commission of India |access-date= 6 October 2021}}{{cite web|title=Lok Sabha Election 2014 - Orissa, Constituency: Aska (19)|url=http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=987&cid=15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170917041233/http://empoweringindia.org/new/Pconstituency.aspx?eid=987&cid=15|url-status=usurped|archive-date=17 September 2017|publisher=EmpoweringIndia.org|access-date=31 May 2014}}}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Biju Janata Dal

|candidate = Baijayant Panda

|votes = 6,01,574

|percentage = 52.72

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Indian National Congress

|candidate = Dharanidhar Nayak

|votes = 3,92,466

|percentage = 34.4

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|candidate = Bishnu Prasad Das

|votes = 1,18,707

|percentage = 10.4

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Bahujan Samaj Party

|candidate = Sk. Faruk

|votes = 6,199

|percentage = 0.54

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Independent

|candidate = Pramod Sahu

|votes = 6,193

|percentage = 0.54

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Aam Aadmi Party

|candidate = Md. Samim Aktar

|votes = 6,029

|percentage = 0.53

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Independent

|candidate = Sukumar Mallick

|votes = 2,221

|percentage = 0.19

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = None of the above

|candidate = None of the above

|votes = 7,610

|percentage = 0.67

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 2,09,108

|percentage = 18.32

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 11,37,607

|percentage = 73.14

|change =

}}

{{Election box Registered electors

|reg. electors = 15,55,444

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no swing|

|winner = Biju Janata Dal

}}

= 2009 =

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Baijayant Panda defeated Indian National Congress candidate Ranjib Biswal by a margin of 1,27,107 votes.

{{Election box begin|

|title = 2009 Indian general elections: Kendrapara}}

{{Election box winning candidate with party link|

|party = Biju Janata Dal

|candidate = Baijayant Panda

|votes = 5,02,635

|percentage = 35.04

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Indian National Congress

|candidate = Ranjib Biswal

|votes = 3,75,528

|percentage = 26.18

|change =

}}

{{Election box candidate with party link|

|party = Bharatiya Janata Party

|candidate = Jnandev Beura

|votes = 80,392

|percentage = 5.6

|change =

}}

{{Election box majority|

|votes = 1,27,107

|percentage = 12.93

|change =

}}

{{Election box turnout|

|votes = 9,83,010

|percentage = 68.53

|change =

}}

{{Election box hold with party link no swing|

|winner = Biju Janata Dal

}}

Notes

References

Category:Lok Sabha constituencies in Odisha

Category:Kendrapara district

Category:Cuttack district