Bhubaneswar Parliamentary Constituency Election and Results Update

Bhubaneswar Parliamentary Constituency is one of the 21 constituencies of Lok Sabha in the state of Odisha. It was formed prior to the 1957 elections and comprises of seven segments of Vidhan Sabha. The Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha Constituency (constituency number 18) consists of 1,447,002 number of electorates in totality, of these 799,628 are males and 647,374 are females as the Election commission of India 2009 data suggests. The city of Bhubaneswar is the state capital and also the administrative centre of the district. Fondly known as the Temple City of India, it lies along the eastern coast of the country and has a total area of 135 sq km. The city is bordered by the rivers Daya and Kuakhai.

It has a population of about 8,80,000 of which over 50% are males. It has a sex ratio of 882 females for every 1,000 males. It has a 90% Hindu majority. Oriya, English, Hindi and Bengali are widely spoken. It has an average literacy rate of over 85% and has over 300 colleges which offer higher education in various fields of arts, sciences, law, medical, engineering etc. It has developed in a major commercial centre of eastern India with industries of agriculture, forestry, mining, manufacturing, etc. Even the IT sector is very well developed here with companies like Infosys, Wipro, IBM and TCS. The National Highway NH-5 links it to nearby towns and cities.

Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha Election Results 2019

In 2009 Election Results the UPA won around 261 out of 543 seats, and in the second position was NDA with 158 seats, while 23 seats were won by Left parties.

In 2014 Election Results the BJP won 282 seats out of 543 seats. This took the NDA tally to 336 seats out of 543 seats in the Lok Sabha. INC could only manage to win 44 seats and stayed in the second position while AIADMK party from Tamil Nadu came third with 37 seats in the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections.

In 2019, the BJP is set to return to power at the Centre after a sweeping win in the 2019 Lok Sabha election , armed with a bigger mandate than in the 2014 General Election. The party - led by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah duo has secured 303 seats in the 17th Lok Sabha. Meanwhile, the Congress, the main Opposition party, managed to increase its vote share from 2014 only by a handful of votes, with a final tally of 52 seats. There will be no Leader of Opposition in the upcoming Lower House for a second consecutive term.

List of winner/current and runner up MPs Bhubaneswar Parliamentary Constituency.

The table below represents the names of all the winning and runner up MPs of Bhubaneswar parliamentary constituency of all the years from the starting until now . It also shows the number of votes secured by each MP and the name of the political party they belong to. The current sitting member of parliament of the Bhubaneswar constituency is Dr. (Prof.) Prasanna Kumar Patasani of BJD.

Year	PC No.	PC Name	Category	winner/current MP	Gender	Party	Vote	Runner Up MP	Gender	Party	Vote
2014	18	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Prasanna Kumar Patasani	M	BJD	439252	Prithiviraj Harichandan	M	BJP	249775
2009	18	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Patasani,Dr. (Prof.) Prasanna Kumar	M	BJD	400472	Santosh Mohanty	M	INC	147712
2004	9	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Prasanna Kumar Patasani	M	BJD	437762	Soumya Ranjan Patnaik	M	INC	325483
1999	9	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Prasanna Kumar Patasani	M	BJD	414429	Bibhuti Bhusan Singh Mardaraj	M	INC	180468
1998	9	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Prasamna Kumar Patasani	M	BJD	378849	Saumya Ranjan Pattanaik	M	INC	250941
1996	9	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Soumya Ranjan Pattnaik	M	INC	298289	Sivaji Patnaik	M	CPM	219870
1991	9	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Shivaji Patnaik	M	CPM	214429	Manmath Nath Das	M	INC	206448
1989	9	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Sivaji Patnaik	M	CPM	332005	Bipin Dash	M	INC	186659
1984	9	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Chintamoni Panigrahi	M	INC	237716	Sivaji Patnaik	M	CPM	147862
1980	9	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Chintamani Panigrahi	M	INC(I)	187144	Shivaji Pattanaik	M	CPM	54527
1977	9	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Sivaji Patnaik	M	CPM	106960	Chintamani Panigrahi	M	INC	101491
1971	8	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Chintamani Panigrahi	M	INC	125646	Bibudhendra Misra	M	UTC	51952
1967	8	Bhubaneswar	GEN	C. Panigrahi	M	INC	79899	P. Patnaik	M	CPI	59168
1962	14	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Raja Purna Chandra Deo Bhanj	M	INC	88340	Nishamani Khuntia	M	PSP	64387
1957	13	Bhubaneswar	GEN	Nrusinha Charan Samantasinhar	M	INC	86487	Ramchandra Ram	M	CPI	59139

List of Assembly Constituencies in Bhubaneswar Parliamentary Constituency

The table below shows the list of all the Assembly Constituencies that fall in Bhubaneswar parliamentary constituency.

Names of Assembly Constituencies
Jayadev (SC)	Bhubaneswar Central	Bhubaneswar North
Ekamra-Bhubaneswar	Jatani	Begunia
Khurda