The Kendrapara lok Sabha seat, which is stated to be an anti-Congress bastion, again went to the BJD with sitting MP Baijyanta Panda defeating his Congress contestant Dharanidhar Nayak.
Similarly, out of five Assembly segments in the district, the BJD bagged three seats whereas Congress got two seats.BJD nominee for Mahakalapada Assembly segment Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak defeated his arch rival Bijay Mohapatra of BJP by a margin 23,315 votes. While Nayak got 80,948 votes, Mohapatra only managed to get 57,633 votes.
Similarly, BJD’s Kishore Chandra Tarei defeated former Minister and Congress candidate Ganeswar Behera in the Kendrapada Assembly seat by 5,315 votes.Tarei got 64,928 votes and Behera secured 59,613 votes.Patkura Assembly seat was once again retained by its sitting MlA Bed Prakash Agrawalla.He defeated his rival candidate from Congress Jayant Mohanty by 47,715 votes. Agrawalla got 79,853 votes but Mohanty secured 41,138 votes.
However, Rajnagar Assembly constituency fell to Congress candidate Ansuman Mohanty who defeated BJD’s Dhruba Charan Sahu by 5,613 votes.Mohanty got 75,234 votes while Sahu got 69,621 votes. Similarly, in Aul segment, Congress’s Debendra Sharma defeated BJD candidate and Minister Pratap Keshari Deb.