2014 Indian general election in Odisha

For Vidhan Sabha elections, see 2014 Odisha Legislative Assembly election.

The 2014 Indian general election polls in Odisha for 21 Lok Sabha seats were held in two phases on 10 and 17 April 2014.^[1]

Indian general election in Odisha, 2014

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21 seats
Turnout	73.79% (8.44%)
First party Second party Third party   Leader Naveen Patnaik Jual Oram Srikant Kumar Jena Party BJD BJP INC Alliance NDA UPA Leader since 1996 2014 2009 Leader's seat did not contest Sundargarh (won) Balasore (lost) Seats before 14 0 6 Seats won 20 1 0 Seat change 6 1 6 Popular vote 94,89,946 46,38,565 55,91,380 Percentage 44.77% 21.88% 26.38%
Seatwise Result Map of the 2014 general election in Odisha
Prime Minister before election Manmohan Singh INC Elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi BJP

The major contenders in the state were Biju Janata Dal, Indian National Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party. The assembly elections were held simultaneously with the general elections in the state.^[1][2]

Election schedule

The constituency-wise election schedule is as follows.^[1]

Polling day	Phase	Date	Constituencies	Vote percentage
1	3	10 April	Aska, Bargarh, Berhampur, Bolangir, Kalahandi, Kandhamal, Koraput, Nabarangpur, Sambalpur, Sundargarh	67[3]
2	5	17 April	Balasore, Bhadrak, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Dhenkanal, Jagatsinghpur, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj, Puri	70[4]

Parties and alliances

  Biju Janata Dal

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Biju Janata Dal			Naveen Patnaik	21

  National Democratic Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Bharatiya Janata Party			Jual Oram	21

  United Progressive Alliance

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	Indian National Congress			Srikant Kumar Jena	21

Opinion poll

Conducted in month(s)	Ref.	Polling organisation/agency
			INC	BJP	BJD	CPI(M)
Aug–Oct 2013	[5]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	9	0	12	0
Dec 2013 – Jan 2014	[6]	India Today-CVoter	8	0	13	0
Jan–Feb 2014	[7]	Times Now-India TV-CVoter	7	2	12	0
March 2014	[8]	NDTV- Hansa Research	3	1	17	0
March–April 2014	[9]	CNN-IBN-Lokniti-CSDS	4	0	16	1

Result

20	1
BJD	BJP

Party	Vote share %	Change	Seats won	Changes
Biju Janata Dal	44.10%	+6.87	20	+6
Bharatiya Janata Party	21.50%		1	+1
Indian National Congress	26.00%	−6.75	0	−6

Elected members

The results of the elections were declared on 16 May 2014.^[1]

Keys:   BJD (20)   BJP (1)

No.	Constituency	Turnout%	Elected M.P.	Party		Runner-up	Party	Margin
1	Bargarh	78.71	Prabhas Kumar Singh		Biju Janata Dal	Subash Chouhan	Bharatiya Janata Party	11,178
2	Sundargarh	71.66	Jual Oram		Bharatiya Janata Party	Dilip Kumar Tirkey	Biju Janata Dal	18,829
3	Sambalpur	75.92	Nagendra Kumar Pradhan		Biju Janata Dal	Suresh Pujari	Bharatiya Janata Party	30,576
4	Keonjhar	80.54	Sakuntala Laguri		Biju Janata Dal	Ananta Nayak	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,57,317
5	Mayurbhanj	79.44	Rama Chandra Hansdah		Biju Janata Dal	Nepole Raghu Murmu	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,22,866
6	Balasore	76.84	Rabindra Kumar Jena		Biju Janata Dal	Pratap Chandra Sarangi	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,41,825
7	Bhadrak	73.63	Arjun Charan Sethi		Biju Janata Dal	Sangram Keshari Jena	Indian National Congress	1,79,359
8	Jajpur	75.31	Rita Tarai		Biju Janata Dal	Asok Das	Indian National Congress	3,20,271
9	Dhenkanal	76.43	Tathagata Satapathy		Biju Janata Dal	Rudra Narayan Pany	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,37,340
10	Bolangir	74.92	Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo		Biju Janata Dal	Sangeeta Kumari Singh Deo	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,04,299
11	Kalahandi	75.83	Arka Keshari Deo		Biju Janata Dal	Pradipta Kumar Naik	Bharatiya Janata Party	56,347
12	Nabarangpur	78.80	Balabhadra Majhi		Biju Janata Dal	Pradeep Kumar Majhi	Indian National Congress	2,042
13	Kandhamal	73.43	Hemendra Chandra Singh		Biju Janata Dal	Harihar Karan	Indian National Congress	1,81,017
14	Cuttack	71.49	Bhartruhari Mahtab		Biju Janata Dal	Aparajita Mohanty	Indian National Congress	3,06,762
15	Kendrapara	73.14	Baijayant Panda		Biju Janata Dal	Dharanidhar Nayak	Indian National Congress	2,09,108
16	Jagatsinghpur	75.54	Kulamani Samal		Biju Janata Dal	Bibhu Prasad Tarai	Indian National Congress	2,76,394
17	Puri	74.01	Pinaki Misra		Biju Janata Dal	Sucharita Mohanty	Indian National Congress	2,63,361
18	Bhubaneswar	58.38	Prasanna Kumar Patasani		Biju Janata Dal	Prithiviraj Harichandan	Bharatiya Janata Party	1,89,477
19	Aska	63.63	Ladu Kishore Swain		Biju Janata Dal	Srilokanath Ratha	Indian National Congress	3,11,997
20	Berhampur	67.90	Siddhanta Mahapatra		Biju Janata Dal	Chandra Sekhar Sahu	Indian National Congress	1,28,728
21	Koraput	76.18	Jhina Hikaka		Biju Janata Dal	Giridhar Gamang	Indian National Congress	19,328

Assembly segments wise lead of parties

Party		Assembly segments	Position in Assembly (as of 2014 simultaneous elections)
	Biju Janata Dal	116	117
	Bharatiya Janata Party	20	10
	Indian National Congress	11	16
	Others	–	4
Total		147