The Bhadrak Lok Sabha constituency consists of Soro, Simulia, Bhandaripokhari, Bhadrak, Basudevpur, Dhamnagar and Chandabali assembly seats. The Soro and Dhamnagar seats are reserved for candidates belonging to scheduled caste category. The Bhadrak lok sabha constituency will go to polls on April 29, in the fourth phase of general election 2019.
In the last election the voter turnout was 73.63% in the Bhadrak constituency and the poll results for the 16th Lok Sabha was announced on May 16.
Once a Congress bastion, Bhadrak has been a stronghold of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) since 1998.
Sitting MP and BJD candidate, Arjun Charan Sethi left the party in March 2019 to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He was Union Minister for Water Resources in the Atal Bihari Vajpeyee Ministry from 2000 to 2004 and is the fourth BJD-MP to have resigned from the party.
BJD is fielding Manjulata Mandal, the wife of sitting party MLA Muktikant Mandal.
On the other hand, the BJP is fielding Arjun Charan Sethi's son Avimanyu Sethi as its MP candidate for the 17th Lok Sabha.
In the 2014 election, BJD had won the Bhadrak seat by a margin of 179359 votes. Congress' Sangram Keshari Jena received 322979 votes. This time Congress has nominated Madhumita Sethi as its MP candidate.
A total of 8 candidates are contesting for the Bhadrak constituency seat this time.
TMC has given ticket to Tilottama Jena and Kirtan Bihari Malik will be SUCI's candidate in Bhadrak.
The poll results will be announced on May 23.
Constituency | Leading | Party | Status |
---|---|---|---|
Aska | Pramila Bisoyi | BJD | Won |
Balasore | Pratap Chandra Sarangi | BJP | Won |
Bargarh | Suresh Pujari | BJP | Won |
Berhampore | Chandra Sekhar Sahu | BJD | Won |
Bhubaneswar | Aparajita Sarangi | BJP | Won |
Bolangir | Sangeeta Kumari | BJP | Won |
Cuttack | Bhartruhari Mahtab | BJD | Won |
Dhenkanal | Mahesh Sahoo | BJD | Won |
Jagatsinghpur | Rajashree Mallick | BJD | Won |
Jajpur | Sarmistha Sethi | BJD | Won |
Kalahandi | Basanta Kumar Panda | BJP | Won |
Kandhamal | Achyutananda Samanta | BJD | Won |
Kendrapara | Anubhav Mohanty | BJD | Won |
Keonjhar | Chandrani Murmu | BJD | Won |
Koraput | Saptagiri Ulaka | Cong | Won |
Mayurbhanj | Bishweswar Tudu | BJP | Won |
Nabarangpur | Ramesh Chandra Majhi | BJD | Won |
Puri | Pinaki Mishra | BJD | Won |
Sambalpur | Nitesh Ganga Deb | BJP | Won |
Sundargarh | Jual Oram | BJP | Won |
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