Both the Assembly constituencies in Jharsuguda district were lost by the BJD.Naba Kishore Das of the Congress retained the Jharsuguda seat again defeating his BJD rival and former Assembly Speaker and former Rajya Sabha member Kishore Kumar Mohanty by 11,563 votes.In the other constituency, Brajarajnagar, BJP candidate Radharani Panda defeated her BJD challenger Anup Sai by 6,790 votes. Sai had defected to the ruling party on the eve of the elections.