The Biju Janata Dal (BJD) won the Deogarh municipality by-polls as its candidates registered victory for the posts of two councillors.
While the polling was conducted on Friday, counting of votes and declaration of results took place on Saturday.
Ahinsa Nayak, BJD candidate for Ward-1, defeated his nearest rival Roshan Behera of the BJP by 71 votes. While Nayak got 523 votes, Behera polled 452.
Similarly, Kula Chandrama Hasti, BJD nominee for Ward-9, beat his nearest rival Rajkumar Munda of the BJP by 197 votes. Hasti got 582 votes while Munda ended up with 385. The results showed that the BJD found the BJP, and not the Congress, as its nearest challenger.