The BJD bagged three of the four Assembly seats and the lone lok Sabha seat, while the Congress won one seat in Jagatsinghpur district.
The Jagatsinghpur lok Sabha seat was captured by BJD’s Dr Kulamani Samal, who defeated his Congress rival sitting MP Bibhu Prasad Tarai, formerly of the CPI, by huge a margin of 2, 76,394 votes.
For the Paradip Assembly seat, BJD stalwart Damodar Rout retained the seat. He defeated his Congress rival trade unionist Arindam (Bapi) Sarkhel by 38,600 votes. BJD candidate Dr Rajashree Mallick defeated her Congress rival Raj Kishor Behera by a margin of 35,448 votes in Tirtol reserved Assembly seat, while Prasanta Kumar Muduli, BJD’s sitting MlA for Balikuda- Erasama Assembly constituency, retained the seat. He defeated his Congress contender Dr lalatendu Mohapatra by 29,354 votes.
BJD dissident candidate Raghu Nandan Das stood in the third position with 32,135 votes. However, the BJD got a shocker in the Jagatsinghpur Assembly seat when its five-time MlA and district BJD president Bishnu Das lost to Congress’s Chiranjib Biswal. Congress got Jagatsinghpur Assembly seat after two and a half decades. Biswal won by a margin of 2,888 votes.