Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency

Sambalpur
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
Assembly constituencies	Kuchinda Rengali Sambalpur Rairakhol Deogarh Chhendipada Athmallik
Established	1952
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Nitesh Ganga Deb
Party	Bharatiya Janata Party
Elected year	2019
Preceded by	Nagendra Kumar Pradhan

Sambalpur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Odisha state in eastern India. This constituency covers the whole Sambalpur district and parts of Deogarh and Angul districts.

Assembly segments

Before delimitation, the legislative assembly segments which constituted this parliamentary constituency were: Padmapur, Melchhamunda, Bijepur, Bhatli, Bargarh, Sambalpur and Rairakhol. ^[1]

Following delimitation of parliamentary constituencies, this constituency presently comprises the following legislative assembly segments:

#	Name	District	Member	Party
15	Kuchinda	Sambalpur	Kishor Chandra Naik		BJD
16	Rengali (SC)		Nauri Nayak		BJP
17	Sambalpur		Jayanarayan Mishra		BJP
18	Rairakhol		Rohit Pujari		BJD
19	Deogarh	Deogarh	Subhash Chandra Panigrahi		BJP
62	Chhendipada (SC)	Angul	Shusanta Kumar Behera		BJD
63	Athmallik		Ramesh Chandra sai		BJD

Kuchinda and Deogarh assembly segments were earlier in erstwhile Deogarh constituency. Rengali assembly segment came into existence in 2008 following delimitation of legislative assembly constituencies.

Members of Parliament

Elected members from this constituency are: ^[2]

Year	Member	Party
1951	Natabar Pandey		Ganatantra Parishad
1957	Shraddhakar Supakar
1962	Kishen Pattnaik		Praja Socialist Party
1967	Shraddhakar Supakar		Indian National Congress
1971	Banamali Babu
1977	Gananath Pradhan		Janata Party
1980	Krupasindhu Bhoi		Indian National Congress (I)
1984			Indian National Congress
1989	Bhabani Shankar Hota		Janata Dal
1991	Krupasindhu Bhoi		Indian National Congress
1996
1998	Prasanna Acharya		Biju Janata Dal
1999
2004
2009	Amarnath Pradhan		Indian National Congress
2014	Nagendra Pradhan		Biju Janata Dal
2019	Nitesh Ganga Deb		Bharatiya Janata Party

Election Result

2024

2024 Indian general election: Sambalpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Dharmendra Pradhan
	BJD	Pranab Prakash Das
	INC	Nagendra Pradhan
	NOTA	None of the above
Majority
Turnout
	gain from		Swing

General Election 2009

2009 Indian general elections: Sambalpur

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	INC	Amarnath Pradhan	3,04,890	38.09
	BJD	Rohit Pujari	2,90,016	36.23
	BJP	Surendra Lath	1,50,910	18.85
	IND.	Md Ali Hussain	17,874	2.23
Majority			14,874	1.86
Turnout			8,00,420	64.90
	INC hold		Swing

2014 Election Result

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Nagendra Pradhan defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Suresh Pujari by a margin of 30,576 votes. ^[3]

2014 Indian general elections: Sambalpur ^{[4] [5]}

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Nagendra Kumar Pradhan	3,58,618	36.43
	BJP	Suresh Pujari	3,28,042	33.33
	INC	Amarnath Pradhan	2,42,131	24.6
	NOTA	None of the above	13,314	1.35	-
	BSP	Nathu ram	12,211	1.24
	AAP	Anand Kumar Samal	7,029	0.71
Majority			30,576	3.10	-
Turnout			9,84,697	75.92
Registered electors			12,97,098
	BJD gain from INC		Swing

2019

2019 Indian general elections: Sambalpur ^[4]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Nitesh Ganga Deb	473,770	42.13
	BJD	Nalini Kanta Pradhan	4,64,608	41.32
	INC	Sarat Patnaik	1,35,969	12.09
	NOTA	None of the above	13,456	1.20
Margin of victory			9,162	0.81
Turnout			11,26,662	76.72
	BJP gain from BJD		Swing

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. "17 - SAMBALPUR Parliamentary Constituency" . Retrieved 29 December 2013.
3. "Odisha Result Status". ELECTION COMMISSION OF INDIA. Retrieved 31 May 2014.
4. "Election Commission of India". results.eci.gov.in.
5. "Lok Sabha Election 2014 - Orissa, Constituency: Sambalpur (03)". EmpoweringIndia.org. Retrieved 31 May 2014.

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