Balasore Lok Sabha Elections 2024: The key contest in Odisha’s Balasore Lok Sabha seat is about to happen between Pratap Chandra Sarangi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Srikant Kumar Jena of the Congress and Biju Janata Dal’s (BJD) Lekhashree Samantsinghar. Polling in Balasore will happen within the final part on June 1.
Pratap Chandra Sarangi, who was earlier with the Biju Janata Dal was defeated by BJP in 2014 elections. However, forward of Lok Sabha polls in 2019, he ditched the BJD and joined the saffron camp.
Odisha has a complete of 21 Lok Sabha seats. In 2019 normal elections, the BJP had gained a complete of eight seats, Naveen Patnaik’s BJP grabbed 11 seats and one was gained by Congress.
Before the elections had been kicked off, speculations had been round that BJP and BJD could enter into an alliance within the state, nonetheless, it did not occur.
Along with Lok Sabha polls, Odisha is about to vote for Assembly elections concurrently. Polling throughout 21 seats in Odisha will happen within the final 4 phases.
Balasore Lok Sabha Result 2019
In 2019, BJP’s Pratap Sarangi defeated BJD’s Rabindra Kumar Jena by a margin of 12,956 votes.
Balasore Lok Sabha Result 2014
In 2014, BJP’s Rabindra Kumar Jena defeated Pratap Chandra Sarangi by a margin of 1,41,825 votes.
In the previous two parliamentary elections, the outcomes have been within the favour of the BJP, which makes Balaore one in every of its stronghold areas within the state.
