The BJP, which managed to win only the Sundargarh seat, was in second position in nine other lok Sabha constituencies in Odisha while the Congress came second in eleven constituencies. BJP came a close second in Bargarh (Subash Chouhan) where it lost to the BJD (Pravas Singh) by 11,178 votes. Other seats in which it came second were Sambalpur (Suresh Pujari), Keonjhar (Anant Nayak), Mayurbhanj (Nepol Raghu Murmu), Baleswar (Pratap Sarangi), Dhenkanal (Rudra Narayan Pany), Balangir (Sangeeta Singhdeo), Kalahandi (Pradipta Kumar Nayak) and Bhubaneswar (Pruthviraj Harichandan). Congress lost the Nabrangpur seat narrowly, where Pradip Majhi lost by over 2,000 votes to Balabhadra Majhi of the BJD. Congress came second in Bhadrak (Sangram Jena), Kandhamal (Harihar Karan), Puri (Sucharita Mohanty), Aska (loknath Rath), Brahmapur (Chandrasekhar Sahu), Koraput (Giridhar Gamang), Cuttack (Aparajita Mohanty), Jajpur (Ashok Das), Jagatsinghpur (Bibhu Prasad Tarai) and Kendrapada (Dharanidhar Swain).