Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency

Bhubaneswar OD-18
Lok Sabha constituency
Interactive Map Outlining Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
Country	India
Region	East India
State	Odisha
Assembly constituencies	Jayadev Bhubaneswar Central Bhubaneswar North Ekamra-Bhubaneswar Jatani Begunia Khurda
Established	1952
Total electors	16,75,019[a][b]
Reservation	None
Member of Parliament
18th Lok Sabha
Incumbent Aparajita Sarangi
Party	BJP
Elected year	2024

Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha Constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha (Parliamentary) Constituencies in Odisha state in eastern India.

Assembly Segments

Assembly Constituencies which constitute this Parliamentary Constituency, after delimitation of Parliamentary Constituencies and Legislative Assembly Constituencies of 2008 are:^[1]

#	Name	District	Member	Party		Leading (in 2024)
111	Jayadev (SC)	Khurda	Naba Kishor Mallick		BJD		BJD
112	Bhubaneswar Central		Ananta Narayan Jena		BJD		BJP
113	Bhubaneswar North		Susant Kumar Rout		BJD		BJP
114	Ekamra-Bhubaneswar		Babu Singh		BJP		BJP
115	Jatani		Bibhuti Bhusan Balabantaray		BJD		BJD
116	Begunia		Pradip Kumar Sahu		BJD		BJD
117	Khurda		Prasanta Kumar Jagadev		BJP		BJP

Assembly Constituencies which constituted this Parliamentary Constituency, before delimitation of Parliamentary Constituencies and Legislative Assembly Constituencies of 2008 are:^[2] Bhubaneswar, Jatani, Khurda, Begunia, Nayagarh, Khandapada and Daspalla.

Elected members

Vote share of winning candidates

2024			47.36%
2019			48.43%
2014			49.25%
2009			56.31%
2004			51.32%
1999			66.27%
1998			57.61%
1996			47.45%
1991			43.48%
1989			58.51%
1984			60.07%
1980			62.53%
1977			44.9%
1971			49.89%

Since its formation in 1952, 18 elections have been held till date.

List of members elected from Bhubaneswar constituency are

Year	Member	Party
As Khurda Constituency
1952	Lingaraj Misra		Indian National Congress
As Bhubaneswar Constituency
1957	Nrusinha Charan Samantasinhar		Indian National Congress
1962	Raja Purna Chandra Bhanja Deo
1967	Chintamani Panigrahi
1971
1977	Sivaji Patnaik		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1980	Chintamani Panigrahi		Indian National Congress (I)
1984			Indian National Congress
1989	Sivaji Patnaik		Communist Party of India (Marxist)
1991
1996	Soumya Ranjan Patnaik		Indian National Congress
1998	Prasanna Kumar Patasani		Biju Janata Dal
1999
2004
2009
2014
2019	Aparajita Sarangi		Bharatiya Janata Party
2024

Election results

2024

Voting were held on 25th May 2024 in 6th phase of Indian General Election. Counting of votes was on 4th June 2024.^[3] In 2024 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Aparajita Sarangi defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Manmath Routray by a margin of 35,152 votes.^[4]

2024 Indian general election: Bhubaneswar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Aparajita Sarangi	512,519	47.36	1.09
	BJD	Manmath Routray	4,77,367	44.11	1.96
	INC	Syed Yashir Nawaz	66,362	6.13
	NOTA	None of the above	8,302	0.77	0.16
	CPI(M)	Suresh Chandra Panigrahy	4148
Majority			35,152	3.25	0.87
Turnout			10,83,541	64.69	5.52
	BJP hold

2019

In 2019 election, Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Aparajita Sarangi defeated Biju Janata Dal candidate Arup Mohan Patnaik by a margin of 23,839 votes.^[5]

2019 Indian general election: Bhubaneswar^[6][7][8][9]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJP	Aparajita Sarangi	486,991	48.45	20.45
	BJD	Arup Mohan Patnaik	4,63,152	46.07	3.18
	CPI(M)	Janardan Pati	23,026	2.29
	AITC	Niranjan Sahoo	19,410	1.56
	NOTA	None of the above	6,156	0.61
Majority			23,839	2.38
Turnout			10,05,624	59.17
	BJP gain from BJD		Swing

2014

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Prasanna Kumar Patasani defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Prithviraj Harichandan by a margin of 1,89,477 votes.^[10]

2014 Indian general elections: Bhubaneswar^[11]

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Prasanna Kumar Patasani	439,252	49.25	7.06
	BJP	Prithviraj Harichandan	2,49,775	28.00	14.79
	INC	Bijay Mohanty	1,45,783	16.34	4.43
	AOP	Sunjoy Hans	29,505	3.31
	NOTA	None of the above	8,140	0.91
	AAP	Bismaya Mahapatra	7,112	0.80
Majority			1,89,477	21.25	14.30
Turnout			8,91,958	58.38	9.24
	BJD hold

2009

In 2009 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Prasanna Kumar Patasani defeated Indian National Congress candidate Santosh Mohanty by a margin of 2,52,760 votes.^[12]

2009 Indian general elections: Bhubaneswar

Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	BJD	Prasanna Kumar Patasani	400,472	56.31
	INC	Santosh Mohanty	1,47,712	20.77
	BJP	Archana Nayak	93,980	13.21
	Bira Oriya Party	Nabaghan Parida	22,325	3.14
Majority			2,52,760	35.55
Turnout			7,11,041	49.14
	BJD hold

Notes

1. as on 2024
2. as data published by election commission

References

1. "Bhubaneswar, Odisha". Retrieved 25 March 2014.
2. "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.
3. "General Election to Legislative Assembly of Odisha 2024". ECI.
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5. "IndiaVotes PC: Bhubaneswar 2019". IndiaVotes. Retrieved 6 July 2025.
6. "List of Contesting Candidates (Phase-III) (PC)" (PDF). ceoorissa.nic.in. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Odisha. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
7. "Aparajita Sarangi(Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP)):Constituency- BHUBANESWAR(ODISHA) - Affidavit Information of Candidate".
8. "Lok Sabha Elections 2019 candidate list for Odisha". Business Insider India. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
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11. "Odisha - Bhubaneswar". Election Commission of India. Archived from the original on 27 May 2014. Retrieved 26 May 2014.
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