Berhampur Lok Sabha constituency

Not to be confused with Baharampur Lok Sabha constituency.

Berhampur OD-20
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Berhampur Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
Assembly constituencies	Chhatrapur Gopalpur Brahmapur Digapahandi Chikiti Mohana Paralakhemundi
Established	1952
Total electors	15,95,228 [a] [b]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy
Party	BJP
Elected year	2024

Brahmapur is a Lok Sabha parliamentary constituency in Odisha, India. ^[1]

Assembly Segments

Constituency number	Name	District	Member	Party		Leading (in 2024)
127	Chhatrapur (SC)	Ganjam	Krushna Chandra Nayak		BJP		BJP
132	Gopalpur		Bibhuti Bhushan Jena		BJP		BJP
133	Brahmapur		K. Anil Kumar		BJP		BJP
134	Digapahandi		Sidhant Mohapatra		BJP		BJP
135	Chikiti		Manoranjan Dyan Samantara		BJP		BJP
136	Mohana (ST)	Gajapati	Dasarathi Gomango		INC		BJP
137	Paralakhemundi		Rupesh Kumar Panigrahi		BJD		BJP

Elected Members

Vote share of winning candidates
2024			49.20%
2019			44.83%
2014			29.84%
2009			26.49%
2004			49.48%
1999			54.46%
1998			49.05%
1996			62.57%
1991			51.96%
1989			49.35%
1984			67.86%
1980			65.68%
1977			57.82%
1971			60.33%

Since its formation in 1952, 19 elections have been held till date including one bypoll in 1961. It was a two member constituency in 1957.

List of members elected from Berhampur constituency are

Year	Winner	Party
As Ganjam Constituency
1952	Bijay Chandra Das		Communist Party of India
1957 [c]	Uma Charan Patnaik		Independent
	Mohan Nayak		Indian National Congress
1961 (bypoll) [d]	Ananta Tripathi Sarma
As Chatrapur Constituency
1962	Ananta Tripathi Sarma		Indian National Congress
1967	R. Jagannath Rao
1971
As Berhampur Constituency
1977	R. Jagannath Rao		Indian National Congress
1980			Indian National Congress (I)
1984			Indian National Congress
1989	Gopinath Gajapati Narayan Deo
1991
1996	P. V. Narasimha Rao
1998	Jayanti Patnaik
1999	Anadi Charan Sahu		Bharatiya Janata Party
2004	Chandra Sekhar Sahu		Indian National Congress
2009 [2]	Sidhant Mohapatra		Biju Janata Dal
2014 [3]
2019 [4]	Chandra Sekhar Sahu
2024 [5]	Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election Results

2024

Voting were held on 13th May 2024 in 4th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4th June 2024. ^[6] In 2024 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Bhrugu Baxipatra by a margin of 1,65,476 votes. ^[5]

2024 Indian general election: Berhampur ^{[7] [8]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Pradeep Kumar Panigrahy	513,102	49.20	13.94
	BJD	Bhrugu Baxipatra	3,47,626	33.33	11.51
	INC	Rashmi Ranjan Patnaik	1,29,744	12.44	1.91
	NOTA	None of the above	15,942	1.53
Majority			1,65,476	15.87
Turnout			10,46,688	65.61
	BJP gain from BJD

2019

In 2019 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Chandra Sekhar Sahu defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Bhrugu Baxipatra by a margin of 94,844 votes. ^[4]

2019 Indian general elections: Berhampur ^{[9] [10]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Chandra Sekhar Sahu	443,843	44.84	0.87
	BJP	Bhrugu Baxipatra	3,48,999	35.26	17.72
	INC	V. Chandrasekhar Naidu	1,42,632	14.41	19.42
	NOTA	None of the above	14,381	1.45
	BSP	Tirupathi Rao Karanam	8,290	0.84	0.42
	SUCI(C)	Somanath Behera	8,296	0.84
	Odisha Pragati Dal	Srihari Patnaik	8,304	0.84
	Independent	K. Shyambabu Subudhi	8,084	0.82
	Independent	Chakradhar Sahu	7,081	0.72
Majority			94,844	9.58	4.53
Turnout			9,90,087	65.90	2.87
	BJD hold		Swing	8.43

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Sidhant Mohapatra defeated Indian National Congress candidate Chandra Sekhar Sahu by a margin of 1,27,720 votes. ^[3]

2014 Indian general elections: Berhampur ^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Sidhant Mohapatra	398,107	43.97
	INC	Chandra Sekhar Sahu	2,70,387	29.86
	BJP	Rama Chandra Panda	1,58,811	17.54
	CPI(M)	Ali Kishor	35,968	3.97
	NOTA	None of the above	12,706	1.40
	AAP	Dhanada Kanta Mishra	8,248	0.91
	Independent	Sri Hari Pattnaik	4,081	0.45
	BSP	Aswin Kumar Padhi	3,865	0.42
	Independent	A Raghunath Varma	3,719	0.41
	Independent	K Shyamababu Subhudhi	3,383	0.37
	AITC	Manoj Chowdhry	3,314	0.36
	SKD	Bidhan Chandra Panda	2,773	0.31
Majority			1,28,728	14.11
Turnout			9,05,933	67.90
Registered electors			13,34,268
	BJD hold

2009

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Sidhant Mohapatra defeated Indian National Congress candidate Chandra Sekhar Sahu by a margin of 57,287 votes. ^[2]

2009 Indian general elections: Berhampur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Sidhant Mohapatra	319,839	26.49
	INC	Chandra Sekhar Sahu	2,62,552	21.74
	BJP	Bharat Paik	78,929	6.54
Majority			57,287	8.06
Turnout			7,11,444	58.92
	BJD gain from INC

Notes

1. as on 2024
2. as data published by election commission
3. It was a 2 member constituency
4. Death of Uma Charan Patnaik

References

1. "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.
2. "IndiaVotes PC: Berhampur 2009". IndiaVotes. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
3. "IndiaVotes PC: Berhampur 2014". IndiaVotes. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
4. "IndiaVotes PC: Berhampur 2019". IndiaVotes. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
5. "Berhampur lok sabha election results 2024: Berhampur Winning Candidates List and Vote Share". India Today. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
6. "General Election to Legislative Assembly of Odisha 2024". ECI .
7. "2024 Loksabha Elections Results - Berhampur". Election Commission of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 24 March 2025. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
8. "Berhampur Constituency Lok Sabha Election Result 2024". The Times of India. 4 June 2024. Archived from the original on 24 March 2025. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
9. "Brahmapur Lok Sabha constituency of Odisha: Full list of candidates, polling dates". Zee News. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
10. "Lok Sabha Elections 2019 candidate list for Odisha". Business Insider India. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
11. "Election Commission of India".

External links

• Brahmapur lok sabha constituency election 2019 date and schedule

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