Bargarh Lok Sabha constituency

Bargarh
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
Assembly constituencies	Padampur Bijepur Bargarh Attabira Bhatli Brajarajnagar Jharsuguda
Established	2008
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Suresh Pujari
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2019

Bargarh Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha parliamentary constituencies in Odisha state in eastern India. This constituency came into existence in 2008 ^[1] as a part of the implementation of delimitation of parliamentary constituencies based on the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India in 2002. Before 2008, some of the constituencies were in Deogarh.

Assembly segments

Presently, Bargarh Lok Sabha constituency comprises 7 legislative assembly segments, which are:

#	Name	District	Member	Party
1	Padampur	Bargarh	Barsha Singh Bariha		BJD
2	Bijepur		Rita Sahu		BJD
3	Bargarh		Dibesh Acharya		BJD
4	Attabira (SC)		Snehangini Chhuria		BJD
5	Bhatli		Susanta Singh		BJD
6	Brajarajnagar	Jharsuguda	Alka Mohanty		BJD
7	Jharsuguda		Dipali Das		BJD

Padampur, Bijepur, Bargarh and Bhatli legislative assembly segments were earlier in erstwhile Sambalpur constituency.

Members of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
1951	Ghanshyam Das Thirani		Independent
	Brij Mohan Pradhan		Ganatantra Parishad
1956-2008 : Constituency did not exist
2009	Sanjay Bhoi		Indian National Congress
2014	Prabhas Kumar Singh		Biju Janata Dal
2019	Suresh Pujari		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election results

2024

2024 Indian general election: Bargarh

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sanjay Bhoi
	BJP	Pradip Purohit
	BJD	Parinita Mishra
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Bargarh ^[2]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Suresh Pujari	581,245	46.58
	BJD	Prasanna Acharya	5,17,306	41.45
	INC	Pradeep Kumar Debta	1,09,417	8.77
	NOTA	None of the above	14,167	1.14
	BSP	Kousika Suna	11,056	0.89
Majority			63,939	5.13
Turnout			12,51,078	78.37	-0.34
	BJP gain from BJD		Swing

General elections 2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Dr.Pravas Kumar Singh defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Subash Chouhan by a margin of 11,178 votes.

2014 Indian general elections: Bargarh ^[3]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Dr. Pravas Kumar Singh	3,83,230	34.11
	BJP	Subash Chouhan	3,72,052	33.12
	INC	Sanjay Bhoi	2,74,610	24.44
	PVP	Kulamani Urma	26,216	2.33
	CPI	Ashok Bisi	21,100	1.87
	AAP	Lingaraj	15,672	1.39
	NOTA	None of the above	14,500	1.29
Majority			11,178	0.99
Turnout			11,26,153	78.71
	BJD gain from INC		Swing

General election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Bargarh

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Sanjay Bhoi	3,97,375	43.20
	BJD	Dr. Hamid Hussain	2,98,931	32.49
	BJP	Radharani Panda	1,57,750	17.15
	BSP	Sunil Kumar Agrawal chor of padampur	25,710	2.79
Majority			98,444	10.70
Turnout			9,19,625	69.65	New
	INC win (new seat)

See also

• Bargarh district
• List of constituencies of the Lok Sabha

Notes

1. "Complete Result of Bargarh". indiatoday.in. indiatoday. Archived from the original on 26 March 2020. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
2. "List of Contesting Candidates (Phase-II) (PC)" (PDF). ceoorissa.nic.in. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Odisha. Retrieved 15 April 2019.
3. "GENERAL ELECTION TO LOK SABHA TRENDS & RESULT 2014". Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.

External links

• Bargarh lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule

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