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The 2024 Indian general election in Odisha will be held in or before May 2024 to elect 21 members of 18th Lok Sabha. [1] [2] [3] [4]
| Party | Symbol | Leader(s) | Contesting Seats | ||
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| Biju Janata Dal | BJD |  | TBD | TBD | |
| Party | Symbol | Leader(s) | Contesting Seats | ||
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| Bharatiya Janata Party | BJP |  | TBD | TBD | |
| Party | Symbol | Leader(s) | Contesting Seats | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress | INC |  | TBD | TBD | |
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | CPI(M) |  | Ali Kishore Patnaik | TBD | |
| Communist Party of India | CPI |  | Abhaya Sahu | TBD | |
| Constituency | ||||||||||
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| BJD | NDA | I.N.D.I.A. | ||||||||
| 1 | Bargarh | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 2 | Sundargarh (ST) | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 3 | Sambalpur | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 4 | Keonjhar (ST) | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 5 | Mayurbhanj (ST) | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 6 | Balasore | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 7 | Bhadrak (SC) | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 8 | Jajpur (SC) | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 9 | Dhenkanal | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 10 | Bolangir | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 11 | Kalahandi | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 12 | Nabarangpur (ST) | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 13 | Kandhamal | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 14 | Cuttack | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 15 | Kendrapara | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 16 | Jagatsinghpur (SC) | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 17 | Puri | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 18 | Bhubaneswar | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 19 | Aska | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 20 | Berhampur | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| 21 | Koraput (ST) | BJD | BJP | |||||||
| Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | Lead | |||
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| BJD | NDA | I.N.D.I.A. | ||||
| India TV-CNX | October 2023 | ±3% | 13 | 8 | 0 | BJD |
| Times Now-ETG | September 2023 | ±3% | 13-15 | 5-7 | 0-1 | BJD |
| August 2023 | ±3% | 12-14 | 6-8 | 0-1 | BJD |
| Polling agency | Date published | Margin of Error | Majority | |||
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| BJD | NDA | I.N.D.I.A. | ||||
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