Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency

Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency is one of the 21 Lok Sabha (parliamentary) constituencies in Odisha state in eastern India.

Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency
Lok Sabha constituency
Constituency details
CountryIndia
RegionEast India
StateOdisha
Assembly constituenciesDhenkanal
Hindol
Kamakhyanagar
Parjanga
Pallahara
Talcher
Angul
Established1952
ReservationNone
Member of Parliament
17th Lok Sabha
Incumbent
Mahesh Sahoo
PartyBiju Janata Dal
Elected year2019

Assembly segments

After delimitation of Dhenkanal Lok Sabha constituency, the seven legislative assembly segments which constitute this parliamentary constituency are:

# Name District Member Party
55 Dhenkanal Dhenkanal Sudhir Kumar Samal BJD
56 Hindol (SC) Simarani Nayak BJD
57 Kamakhyanagar Prafulla Kumar Mallik BJD
58 Parjanga Nrusingha Charan Sahu BJD
59 Pallahara Angul Mukesh Kumar Pal BJD
60 Talcher Brajakishore Pradhan BJD
61 Angul Rajanikant Singh BJD

[1]Before delimitation in 2008, legislative assembly segments which constituted this parliamentary constituency were: Birmaharajpur, Athmallik, Angul, Hindol, Dhenkanal, Gondia and Kamakhyanagar.[2]

Members of Parliament
Year Member Party
1952 Niranjan Jena Indian National Congress
Sarangadhar Das Praja Socialist Party
1957 Surendra Mohanty Ganatantra Parishad
1962 Baishnab Charan Patnaik Indian National Congress
1967 Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo Swatantra Party
1971 Devendra Satpathy Indian National Congress
1977 Janata Party
1980 Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo Indian National Congress (I)
1984 Indian National Congress
1989 Bhajaman Behara Janata Dal
1991 Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo Indian National Congress
1996
1998 Tathagata Satpathy Biju Janata Dal
1999 Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo Indian National Congress
2004 Tathagata Satpathy Biju Janata Dal
2009
2014
2019 Mahesh Sahoo

Election result

2024
2024 Indian general election: Dhenkanal
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJD Abinash Samal
INC Sashmita Behera
BJP Rudra Narayan Pani
NOTA None of the above
Majority
Turnout
gain from Swing

2019 Election Result

In 2019 Indian general election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Mahesh Sahoo defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Rudra Narayan Pany by a margin of 35,412 votes.[3]

2019 Indian general elections: Dhenkanal[4]
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJD Mahesh Sahoo 522,884 46.21
BJP Rudra Narayan Pani 487,472 43.08
INC Kamakhya Prasad Singh 80,349 7.10
NOTA None of the above 11,254 0.99
Majority 35,412 3.13
Turnout 1,133,213 75.33
BJD hold Swing

2014 Election Result

In 2014 election, Biju Janata Dal candidate Tathagat Satapathy defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Rudra Narayan Pany by a margin of 1,37,340 votes.

2014 Indian general elections: Dhenkanal
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJD Tathagata Satpathy 4,53,277 43.50
BJP Rudra Narayan Pani 3,15,937 30.32
INC Sudhir Kumar Samal 2,13,794 20.52
NOTA None of the above 13,205 1.27
Majority 1,37,340 13.18
Turnout 10,42,111 76.43
BJD hold Swing

General Election 2009
2009 Indian general elections: Dhenkanal
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
BJD
INC
BJP
Majority 1,86,587 21.78
Turnout 8,56,631 66.74
BJD hold Swing

References
  1. Archived 19 June 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  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 2019". Election Commission of India. Retrieved 22 October 2021.
  4. "List of Contesting Candidates (Phase-II) (PC)" (PDF). ceoorissa.nic.in. Office of the Chief Electoral Officer, Odisha. Retrieved 15 April 2019.

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