The Bharatiya Janata Party , fared unexpectedly exceedingly well in the Zilla Parishad (ZP) elections in the first phase of the rural polls in the State on Monday mostly at the cost of the rulingl (BJD) and to some extent that of the Congress. Till filing of the report, the ZP seat winning tally of the BJD stood at 76 followed by BJP's 56, Congress's 11 while three other seats were grabbed by Independent candidates. A total of 188 ZP seats were polled in the first phase on Monday. In Kalahandi district, the saffron party bagged all the nine ZP zones, followed by six each in Balangir and Bargarh, one in Jharsuguda, In 2012 elections, out of total 851 ZP seats, BJD grabbed 651, Congress got 126 and BJP managed to get a mere 36 seats.