Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency

Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
Assembly constituencies	Dhenkanal Hindol Kamakhyanagar Parjanga Pallahara Talcher Angul
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Mahesh Sahoo
Party	Biju Janata Dal
Elected year	2019

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

Assembly segments

After delimitation of Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency, the seven legislative assembly segments which constitute this parliamentary constituency are:

#	Name	District	Member	Party
55	Dhenkanal	Dhenkanal	Sudhir Kumar Samal		BJD
56	Hindol (SC)		Simarani Nayak		BJD
57	Kamakhyanagar		Prafulla Kumar Mallik		BJD
58	Parjanga		Nrusingha Charan Sahu		BJD
59	Pallahara	Angul	Mukesh Kumar Pal		BJD
60	Talcher		Brajakishore Pradhan		BJD
61	Angul		Rajanikant Singh		BJD

^[1] Before delimitation in 2008, legislative assembly segments which constituted this parliamentary constituency were: Birmaharajpur, Athmallik, Angul, Hindol, Dhenkanal, Gondia and Kamakhyanagar. ^[2]

Members of Parliament

Year	Member	Party
1952	Niranjan Jena		Indian National Congress
	Sarangadhar Das		Praja Socialist Party
1957	Surendra Mohanty		Ganatantra Parishad
1962	Baishnab Charan Patnaik		Indian National Congress
1967	Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo		Swatantra Party
1971	Devendra Satpathy		Indian National Congress
1977			Janata Party
1980	Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo		Indian National Congress (I)
1984			Indian National Congress
1989	Bhajaman Behara		Janata Dal
1991	Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo		Indian National Congress
1996
1998	Tathagata Satpathy		Biju Janata Dal
1999	Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo		Indian National Congress
2004	Tathagata Satpathy		Biju Janata Dal
2009
2014
2019	Mahesh Sahoo

Election result

2024

2024 Indian general election: Dhenkanal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC
	BJP	Rudra Narayan Pani
	BJD	Abinash Samal
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

2019 Election Result

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. ^[3]

2019 Indian general elections: Dhenkanal ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Mahesh Sahoo	522,884	46.21
	BJP	Rudra Narayan Pani	487,472	43.08
	INC	Kamakhya Prasad Singh	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		Swing

2014 Election Result

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Tathagat Satapathy 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	4,53,277	43.50
	BJP	Rudra Narayan Pani	3,15,937	30.32
	INC	Sudhir Kumar Samal	2,13,794	20.52
	NOTA	None of the above	13,205	1.27
Majority			1,37,340	13.18
Turnout			10,42,111	76.43
	BJD hold		Swing

General Election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Dhenkanal

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD
	INC
	BJP
Majority			1,86,587	21.78
Turnout			8,56,631	66.74
	BJD hold		Swing

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 2019". Election Commission of India . Retrieved 22 October 2021.
4. "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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