Odisha Assembly Election Results 2024: BJP registers sweeping victory with 78 seats

The BJP was heading towards majority in the Odisha Assembly election as it won 51 seats and was leading in 27 other constituencies in the 147-member Odisha Assembly on Tuesday, according to the Election Commission of India. The Biju Janata Dal which has been in power in Odisha since 2000 has won 38 seats and was leading in 13 other constituencies, it said. Odisha Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik was trailing BJP's Laxman Bag by 16,321 votes in the Kantabanji Assembly seat in Bolangir district.

The BJP won 14 Assembly seats in Odisha on Tuesday and was leading in 66 other constituencies, according to the Election Commission of India. The Biju Janata Dal won seven seats and was leading in 42 constituencies out of the 147 Assembly seats, it said. The Congress won one seat and was ahead in 13 Assembly segments. BJP candidate Prithviraj Hairchandran won the Chilika Assembly constituency defeating his nearest BJD rival Raghunath Sahu by 4,566 votes while saffron party candidate Ashwini Kumar Sarangi won the Bargarh Assembly seat by defeating his nearest rival Debesh Acharya of BJD by 4,772 votes.

The BJP won two Assembly seats in Odisha and was leading in 79 other constituencies, according to the Election Commission of India. BJP candidate Prithviraj Hairchandran won the Chilika Assembly constituency defeating his nearest BJD rival Raghunath Sahu by 4,566 votes while saffron party candidate Ashwini Kumar Sarangi won the Bargarh Assembly seat by defeating his nearest rival Debesh Acharya of BJD by 4,772 votes. BJP candidates were also leading in 79 seats out of the 147 Assembly seats.

Congress candidates are leading in 14 Assembly constituencies in Odisha, according to trends available on the EC website. Congress candidates leading are C S Raazen Ekka (Rajgangpur), Niranjan Patnaik (Bhandaripokhari), Ashok Kumar Das (Basudevpur), Samarendra Mishra (Bolangir), Sagar Charan Das (Bhawanipatna), Sofia Firdous (Barabati-Cuttack), and Ramesh Jena (Sanakhemundi) are leading in the Assembly polls. The other Congress leaders leading are Dasarathi Gamango (Mohana), Bijay Kumar Patnaik (Paralakhemundi), Satyajeet Gamango (Gunupur), Kadraka Appala Swamy (Rayagada), Pabitra Saunta (Lakshmipur), Tara Prasad Bahinipati (Jeypore) and Mangu Khilla (Chitrakonda). In the 2019 Assembly elections, the Congress had won nine seats in the 147-member Odisha Assembly.

Odisha Assembly Election Leads/Results 2024 (Till 3:00 pm): 

• BJP: 80
• BJD: 49
• Congress: 15
• CPI (M): 1
• IND: 2

Odisha Assembly Election Leads/Results 2024 (Till 2:05 pm): 

• BJD: 53
• BJP: 76
• Congress: 16
• CPI (M): 1
• IND: 1

Odisha Assembly Election Leads/Results 2024 (Till 12:50 pm): 

• BJD: 59
• BJP: 72
• Congress: 13
• CPI (M): 1
• IND: 2

Odisha Assembly Election Leads/Results 2024 (Till 11:52 am): 

• BJD: 53
• BJP: 77
• Congress: 12
• CPI (M): 1
• IND: 2

Odisha Assembly Election Leads/Results 2024 (Till 11:23 am): 

BJD: 50
BJP: 73
Congress: 12
CPI (M): 1
IND: 1

Odisha Assembly Election Leads/Results 2024 (Till 10:20 am): 

• BJD: 38
• BJP: 57
• Congress: 10
• CPI (M): 1
• IND: 1

Odisha Assembly Election Leads/Results 2024 (Till 10:20 am): 

• BJD: 28
• BJP: 47
• Congress: 6
• CPI (M): 1
• IND: 1

Odisha Assembly Election Leads/Results 2024 (Till 9:35 am): 

• BJD: 24
• BJP: 19
• Congress: 0

Odisha Assembly Election Leads/Results 2024 (Till 9:05 am): 

• BJD: 24
• BJP: 19
• Congress: 0

BJD candiadte Dipali Das leading from Jharsuguda seat by a margin of 867 votes.

Odisha Assembly Election Leads/Results 2024 (Till 8:37 am): 

• BJP: 7
• BJD: 3
• Congress: 0

BJP has taken the lead in Odisha in the early trends. In Odisha, BJP is currently leading on 5 seats.

Every party or any coalition must reach the majority mark in the Legislative Assembly to form the government in the state. The majority mark in each state Assembly depends upon the total number of seats in the Legislative Assembly of a particular state. The majority mark in any state is half of the number of total Assembly seats plus one more seat. The Odisha Assembly has 147 seats and the majority mark is 74.

The counting of votes for all 175 Assembly seats in Odisha, as well as for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024, has commenced.

The counting of votes for all 147 Assembly seats in Odisha along with the Lok Sabha Elections 2024 to begin shortly. 

Security measures have been intensified with 60 companies of central armed police force (CAPF) and Odisha armed police force deployed at counting centres, along with another 89 CAPF companies for maintaining law and order after the results are announced.

A total of 5,777 counting supervisors, 5,233 counting assistants, and 5,396 micro observers have been appointed. Additionally, the Election Commission has assigned 124 special observers to oversee the counting process.

Counting will be held in 70 centres throughout the state starting at 8 am on Tuesday, officials said. More than 67,000 ballot units, along with 1.47 lakh postal ballots for Lok Sabha elections and 1.46 lakh for assembly elections, will be tallied across the 70 centres.

Odisha recorded 74.44 per cent of polling till the completion of Phase 3 on May 25. The last phase of the Odisha Assembly election saw a voter turnout of 70.67 per cent (approximate) on June 1. It was 73.20 per cent in the Odisha Assembly Election 2019.

The 42 assembly seats in Odisha that went to polls in the fourth phase (June 1) are Jashipur (ST), Badasahi (SC), Soro (SC), Binjharpur (SC), Salipur, Niali (SC), Saraskana (ST), Jaleswar Simulia, Bari, Mahanga, Paradeep, Rairangpur (ST), Bhograi, Bhandaripokhari, Barachana, Patkura, Tirtol (SC), Bangriposi (ST), Basta, Bhadrak, Dharmasala, Kendrapara (SC), Balikuda-Erasama, Udala (ST), Balasore, Basudevpur, Jajpur, Aul, Jagatsinghpur, Baripada (ST), Remuna (SC), Dhamnagar (SC), Korei, Rajanagar, Kakatpur (SC), Morada, Nilgiri, Chandabali, Sukinda, Mahakalapada, and Nimapara.

The 42 assembly seats in Odisha that went to polls in the third phase (May 25) are Kuchinda, Telkoi (ST), Dhenkanal, Baramba, Puri, Jayadev (SC), Rengali (SC), Ghasipura, Hindol (SC), Banki, Brahmagiri, Bhubaneswar Central, Sambalpur, Anandapur (SC), Kamakhyanagar, Athagarh, Satyabadi, Bhubaneswar North, Rairakhol, Patna (ST), Parjanga, Barabati-Cuttack, Pipili, Ekamra-Bhubaneswar, Deogarh, Keonjhar (ST), Pallahara, Choudwar-Cuttack, Chilika, Jatani, Chhendipada (SC), Champua, Talcher, Cuttack Sadar (SC), Ranpur, Begunia, Athmallik, Karanjia (ST), Angul, Khandapada, Nayagarh, and Khurda.

The 35 assembly seats in Odisha that went to polls in the second phase (May 20) are Padampur Talsara (ST), Birmaharajpur (SC), Baliguda (ST), Polasara, Bijepur, Sundargarh (ST), Sonepur, G Udayagiri (ST), Kabisuryanagar, Bargarh, Biramitrapur (ST), Loisingha (SC), Phulbani (ST), Khallikote (SC), Attabira (SC), Raghunathpali (SC), Patnagarh, Kantamal, Aska, Bhatli, Rourkela, Bolangir, Boudh, Surada, Brajarajnagar, Rajgangpur (ST), Titlagarh, Daspalla (SC), Sanakhemundi, Jharsuguda, Bonai (ST), Kantabanji, Bhanjanagar, and Hinjili.

The 28 assembly seats in Odisha that went to polls in the first phase (May 13) are Nuapada, Umerkote (ST), Chhatrapur, Gunupur (ST), Khariar, Jharigam (ST), Gopalpur, Bissam Cuttack (ST), Lanjigarh (ST), Nabarangpur (ST), Brahmapur, Rayagada (ST), Junagarh, Dabugam (ST), Digapahandi, Lakshmipur (ST), Dharmgarh, Kotpad (ST), Chikiti, Jeypore, Bhawanipatna (SC), Malkangiri (ST), Mohana, Koraput (SC), Narla, Chitrakonda (ST), Paralakhemundi, and Pottangi (ST).

Voters in Odisha used their franchise to elect the 147-member strong state Assembly on May 20 (35 constituencies), May 25 (42 constituencies) and June 1 (42 constituencies) also. 24 seats are reserved for Scheduled Castes (SCs) and another 33 for Scheduled Tribes (STs) in the Odisha Assembly.  The term of the present Odisha Assembly is from June 25, 2019, to June 24, 2024.

In the 2019 Odisha Assembly Election, the BJD won 113 seats and retained the state. The BJP emerged as the main opposition party in the state by winning 23 seats in the Assembly and the Congress was relegated to the third position with only 9 seats. Naveen Patnaik became the Chief Minister for the fourth consecutive time. In the 2014 Odisha Election, the BJD won 117 seats while the Congress was decimated to just 16 seats. The BJP won 10 seats.

Hinjili, Kantabanji, Digapahandi, Nayagarh, Bhandaripokhari, Sambalpur, Brajarajnagar, Jharsuguda, Rourkela, Pipili, Anandpur and Keonjhar are some of the key Assembly constituencies in Odisha.

Security heightened at a counting centre in Odisha's Bhubaneswar. The counting of votes for the Assembly Elections in the state will begin at 8 am.

Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik (BJD), Pradipta Kumar Naik (BJP), Dilip Kumar Ray (BJP), Sidhant Mohapatra (BJP), Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak (BJD), Pratap Keshari Deo (BJD), Kalikesh Narayan Singh Deo (BJD), Niranjan Pujari (BJD), Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo (BJP), Jayanarayan Mishra (BJP), Sarada Prashad Nayak (BJD), Pratyusha Rajeshwari Singh (BJP), Suresh Pujari (BJP), Prasanna Acharya (BJD), Jagannath Saraka (BJD), Ranendra Pratap Swain (BJD), Pradip Kumar Amat (BJD), Bhaskar Madhei (BJP), Mohan Charan Majhi (BJP) and Niranjan Patnaik (Congress) are some of the key candidates in Odisha.    

The Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD) has been governing the state since 2000. However, the BJD is anticipated to face a formidable challenge from the resurgent Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Odisha this time.

The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) of Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is facing a tough challenge from the resurgent BJP this time in Odisha. The BJD has been ruling the state since 2000. The Congress is also trying to make inroads in the state.

The counting of votes for the Odisha Assembly elections will begin at 8 am today (June 4) along with the counting of votes for the Lok Sabha Elections 2024.