The voters of Odisha this time preferred new faces and rejected the family pairs and turncoats in the fray for the Lok Sabha and State Assembly.
Even as the Congress had earlier announced that it would not give ticket to more than one person from a family, it later violated the norm and faced humiliation after elections.
The people have rejected three father-son pairs and a father-daughter pair of Congress.
It was OPCC president Niranjan Patnaik, who first broke the norm and contested from two Assembly segments - Ghasipura in Kenjhar district and Bhandaripokhari in Bhadrak district, but lost the polls from both the places.
His son Navjyoti Patnaik was made a candidate in Baleswar Lok Sabha seat and get relegated to the third position in polls.
Senior Congress leader Bhakta Charan Das lost the polls in Kalahandi Lok Sabha seat, while his son Sagar Charan Das was defeated in Bhawanipatna Assembly segment.
Gorege Tirkey who contested from Sundergarh Lok Sabha seat as a Congress candidate finished third in the list while his son Rohit Joseph Tirkey also lost the polls in Biramitrapur Assembly segment this time.
Another senior Congress leader Ananta Prasad Sethi and his daughter Madumita Sethi also lost polls. The father was contesting from Simulia Assembly segment, while the daughter had tried her luck from Bhadrak Lok Sabha seat. The father and daughter duo finished third in their respective constituencies.
Former Chief Minister and Congress veteran Hemananda Biswal's daughters, Sunita and Anita, also lost the polls. They contested from Sundargarh Lok Sabha seat and Sundargarh Assembly seat respectively. Sunita was a BJD candidate, while Anita fought elections on a Congress ticket.
BJD vice-president AU Singh Deo's sons Kalikesh and Arkesh, also lost the polls from Balangir Lok Sabha seat and Balangir Assembly segment, respectively.
Congress stalwart Narasingha Mishra though retained his Balangir Assembly seat, his son Samarendra lost the polls in the Balangir LS constituency.
However, the people elected sons of four sitting MLAs in the Assembly elections.
Minister Bijayshree Routray's son Bishnubrata Routray was elected from Basudevpur Assembly segment while sitting MLA Pravat Biswal's son Souvik has been elected from Cuttack-Choudwar Assembly segment.
Banki MLA Pravat Tripathy's son Devi Ranjan Tripathy also got elected from his father's constituency. Routray, Biswal and Tripathy did not contest the elections this time.
Damodor Rout, who joined the BJP after being dismissed from the ruling BJD, lost the polls at Balikuda-Ersama Assembly segment, while his son Sambit Routray was elected from Paradip Assembly segment on BJD ticket.
Similarly, BJD's Dhamnagar MLA Muktikant Mandal's wife Manjulata Mandal was elected to Lok Sabha from the Bhadrak constituency while sitting MP Jhinna Hikaka's wife Kausalya lost the polls in the Koraput Lok Sabha seat.
Among the prominent turncoats who lost the LS polls are Baijayant Panda (BJD to BJP), Dr Debasish Marandi (JMM to BJD), Jayram Pangi (BJD to BJP), Balabhadra Majhi (BJD to BJP), Kharavel Swain (from a regional party to BJP), Panchanan Kanungo (from a regional poarty to Congress), Bibhu Prasad Tarai (Congress to BJP) and Abhimanyu Sethi (BJD to BJP).
Similarly, turncoats such as Damodar Rout (BJD to BJP), Raghunath Mohanty (BJD to BJP), Jogesh Singh (Congress to BJD), Krushna Sagaria (Congress to BSP), Prakash Behera (Congress to BJP) also lost the polls.
However, some of the turncoats who won the polls are Kusum Tete (BJD to BJP), Sukant Nayak (BJD to BJP), Jayant Sarangi (BJD to BJP), Naba Kishore Das (Congress to BJD) and Rajkishore Das (BJP to BJD).
While rejecting the family politics and prominent turncoats, the people preferred new faces. The 16th Odisha Assembly now will have 59 new Members who have been elected for the first time.
Of the 21 Lok Sabha members, seven are new faces.