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Sambalpur, Odisha — Lok Sabha Election Results

Compiled by EveryElectionResult.com's data team · Last updated 2026-08-30

Sambalpur (Odisha) was won by Nitesh Ganga Deb (Bharatiya Janata Party) at the 2019 Lok Sabha general election, with a margin of 9,162 votes over Nalini Kanta Pradhan. This page covers every Lok Sabha general election in Sambalpur, Odisha, from 1951 to 2019.

Full Election History, 1951–2019

Election Winner Party Votes Vote Share Runner-up Margin
1951 Natabar Pandey Ganatantra Parishad 70,622 55.0% Gauri Sankar Misra (Indian National Congress) 33,338 (25.9 pts)
1957 Banamali Kumbhar Ganatantra Parishad 134,127 29.0% Sradhakar Supakar (Ganatantra Parishad) 2,153 (0.5 pts)
1962 Kisan Pattanayak Socialist Party 37,009 42.2% Binod Bihari Das (Indian National Congress) 2,368 (2.7 pts)
1967 S. Supakar Indian National Congress 57,349 29.9% S. Satpathy (Swatantra Party) 15,762 (8.2 pts)
1971 Banamali Babu Indian National Congress 79,788 40.7% Prasanna Kumar Panda (Communist Party of India) 42,707 (21.8 pts)
1977 Gananath Pradhan Bharatiya Lok Dal 176,221 59.5% Banamali Babu (Indian National Congress) 56,234 (19.0 pts)
1980 Krupasindhu Bhoi Congress (I) 173,070 54.0% Jhasnaketansahu (Janata Party (Secular)) 109,233 (34.1 pts)
1984 Krupasindhu Bhoi Indian National Congress 249,662 60.7% Sairindri Nayak (Janata Party) 139,660 (33.9 pts)
1989 Bhabani Shankar Hota Janata Dal 322,270 54.6% Krupasindhu Bhoi (Indian National Congress) 101,583 (17.2 pts)
1991 Krupasindhu Bhoi Indian National Congress 223,213 44.8% Bhabanishankar Hota (Janata Dal) 35,318 (7.1 pts)
1996 Krupasindhu Bhoi Indian National Congress 292,894 45.2% Bijaya Singh Bariha (Janata Dal) 84,507 (13.1 pts)
1998 Prasanna Acharya Biju Janata Dal 310,870 45.8% Dr. Krupasindhu Bhoi (Indian National Congress) 24,768 (3.6 pts)
1999 Prasanna Acharya Biju Janata Dal 398,597 57.6% Dr. Krupasindhu Bhoi (Indian National Congress) 126,963 (18.3 pts)
2004 Prasanna Acharya Biju Janata Dal 390,556 48.2% Sanjay Bhoi (Indian National Congress) 14,770 (1.8 pts)
2009 Amarnath Pradhan Indian National Congress 304,890 38.1% Rohit Pujari (Biju Janata Dal) 14,874 (1.9 pts)
2014 Nagendra Kumar Pradhan Biju Janata Dal 358,618 36.4% Suresh Pujari (Bharatiya Janata Party) 30,576 (3.1 pts)
2019 Nitesh Ganga Deb Bharatiya Janata Party 473,770 42.6% Nalini Kanta Pradhan (Biju Janata Dal) 9,162 (0.8 pts)

Full Result Breakdown by Election

1951

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Natabar Pandey Ganatantra Parishad 70,622 55.0%
Gauri Sankar Misra Indian National Congress 37,284 29.0%
Durga Prasad Nanda Independent 20,579 16.0%

1957

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Banamali Kumbhar Ganatantra Parishad 134,127 29.0%
Sradhakar Supakar Ganatantra Parishad 131,974 28.6%
Ghanashyam Das Indian National Congress 84,665 18.3%
Mohan Nag Indian National Congress 74,954 16.2%
Laxminarayan Misra Independent 36,331 7.9%

1962

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Kisan Pattanayak Socialist Party 37,009 42.2%
Binod Bihari Das Indian National Congress 34,641 39.5%
Panda Ganga Bhusan Ganatantra Parishad 16,034 18.3%

1967

CandidatePartyVotesShare
S. Supakar Indian National Congress 57,349 29.9%
S. Satpathy Swatantra Party 41,587 21.7%
K. Patnaik Samyukta Socialist Party 38,985 20.3%
D. C. Mohanty Communist Party of India 32,689 17.0%
P. Karmi Independent 11,764 6.1%
M. Pradhan Bharatiya Jana Sangh 9,553 5.0%

1971

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Banamali Babu Indian National Congress 79,788 40.7%
Prasanna Kumar Panda Communist Party of India 37,081 18.9%
Kishen Pattanayak Samyukta Socialist Party 32,041 16.4%
Lalit Mohan Das UTC 26,055 13.3%
Shraddhakkar Supakar Congress (O) 11,062 5.6%
Sriniwas Agrawal Bharatiya Jana Sangh 9,930 5.1%

1977

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Gananath Pradhan Bharatiya Lok Dal 176,221 59.5%
Banamali Babu Indian National Congress 119,987 40.5%

1980

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Krupasindhu Bhoi Congress (I) 173,070 54.0%
Jhasnaketansahu Janata Party (Secular) 63,837 19.9%
Prasanna Kumar Acharya Janata Party 50,775 15.8%
Jagadish Panda Independent 15,635 4.9%
M. Kumbhar Independent 5,524 1.7%
Tribikram Mallik Independent 4,860 1.5%
Kumar Dilleswar Pradhan Independent 3,823 1.2%
Islamuddin Nasari JKD 3,255 1.0%

1984

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Krupasindhu Bhoi Indian National Congress 249,662 60.7%
Sairindri Nayak Janata Party 110,002 26.7%
Jagdish Panda LKD 35,668 8.7%
Bhaskar Bariha Independent 11,513 2.8%
Ambika Chanan Sharma Independent 4,613 1.1%

1989

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Bhabani Shankar Hota Janata Dal 322,270 54.6%
Krupasindhu Bhoi Indian National Congress 220,687 37.4%
Fakir Charan Panigrahi Bharatiya Janata Party 21,905 3.7%
Kisan Pattnaik Independent 14,987 2.5%
Purusottam Bag Independent 5,099 0.9%
Sasibhusan Pradhan Independent 2,721 0.5%
Loknath Pradhan Independent 1,974 0.3%
Sashibhushan Bhoi OPF 1,000 0.2%

1991

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Krupasindhu Bhoi Indian National Congress 223,213 44.8%
Bhabanishankar Hota Janata Dal 187,895 37.7%
Bimbadhar Kumar Bharatiya Janata Party 56,641 11.4%
Radhakanta Bohidar Janata Party 12,991 2.6%
Doman Munda JKP 5,375 1.1%
Bhikari Charan Pancharia Independent 2,962 0.6%
Bidyadhar Naik Bahujan Samaj Party 2,311 0.5%
Sashibhusan Bhoi Independent 1,762 0.4%
Chailameher Independent 1,547 0.3%
Purostam Bagh Independent 1,042 0.2%
Ramakrushnaberiha Independent 984 0.2%
Brajamohankalet Independent 781 0.2%
Amarendranarayan Dilleshware Independent 468 0.1%

1996

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Krupasindhu Bhoi Indian National Congress 292,894 45.2%
Bijaya Singh Bariha Janata Dal 208,387 32.2%
Bimbadhar Kuanr Bharatiya Janata Party 123,114 19.0%
Dasharatha Patra Independent 11,380 1.8%
Nirmaljeet Gulzar Padhi AIIC(T) 2,599 0.4%
Sashi Bhoi Independent 2,049 0.3%
Niral Barjo JMM 1,792 0.3%
Ram Krushana Mahanand Independent 1,676 0.3%
Dadhibaban Satapathy Independent 1,386 0.2%
Tejaraj Naik Independent 1,315 0.2%
Purandar Shashani Independent 979 0.2%

1998

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Prasanna Acharya Biju Janata Dal 310,870 45.8%
Dr. Krupasindhu Bhoi Indian National Congress 286,102 42.1%
Bijaya Singh Bariha Janata Dal 44,516 6.6%
Rabindra Megha Bahujan Samaj Party 14,864 2.2%
Bhabani Sankar Hota SAP 9,364 1.4%
Rabinarayan Padhi AJBP 5,016 0.7%
Kuberjal Yadav Samajwadi Party 4,088 0.6%
Surya Prakash Mohapatra Independent 2,237 0.3%
Radhakanta Bohidar SJP(R) 2,139 0.3%

1999

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Prasanna Acharya Biju Janata Dal 398,597 57.6%
Dr. Krupasindhu Bhoi Indian National Congress 271,634 39.2%
Rabindra Meg Bahujan Samaj Party 13,904 2.0%
Rabinarayan Padhi AJBP 5,902 0.9%
Shiv Shankar Bagh Independent 2,400 0.3%

2004

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Prasanna Acharya Biju Janata Dal 390,556 48.2%
Sanjay Bhoi Indian National Congress 375,786 46.4%
Ashok Mittal Bahujan Samaj Party 44,259 5.5%

2009

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Amarnath Pradhan Indian National Congress 304,890 38.1%
Rohit Pujari Biju Janata Dal 290,016 36.2%
Surendra Lath Bharatiya Janata Party 150,910 18.9%
Md. Ali Hussain Independent 17,874 2.2%
Gobinda Ram Agarwal Bahujan Samaj Party 16,838 2.1%
Ashok Kumar Naik KOKD 10,374 1.3%
Bijaya Kumar Mahananda RPI 9,518 1.2%

2014

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Nagendra Kumar Pradhan Biju Janata Dal 358,618 36.4%
Suresh Pujari Bharatiya Janata Party 328,042 33.3%
Amarnath Pradhan Indian National Congress 242,131 24.6%
None Of The Above Independent 13,314 1.4%
Nathu Ram Bahujan Samaj Party 12,211 1.2%
Ananda Kumar Samal Aam Aadmi Party 7,029 0.7%
Md. Ali Hussain Independent 4,763 0.5%
Prasadi Pradhan SUCI(C) 4,502 0.5%
Ashok Panda Independent 4,018 0.4%
Dusmanta Kar Independent 4,012 0.4%
Shankarlal Agrawala PBI 3,110 0.3%
Tarani Bhoi PVP 2,559 0.3%

2019

CandidatePartyVotesShare
Nitesh Ganga Deb Bharatiya Janata Party 473,770 42.6%
Nalini Kanta Pradhan Biju Janata Dal 464,608 41.8%
Sarat Pattanayak Indian National Congress 135,969 12.2%
Md. Mustukim Bahujan Samaj Party 8,177 0.7%
Binay Ocean API 6,581 0.6%
Kanhu Charan Sanbad Independent 5,434 0.5%
Santoshini Karna ANC 5,197 0.5%
Atma Ram Supkar PSP(L) 3,791 0.3%
Nabakishore Pradhan SUCI(C) 2,715 0.2%
Prabhat Kumar Dharua GGP 2,699 0.2%
Ashutosh Kumar Hanuman BPP 2,058 0.2%

Margin Over Time

Winning margin (percentage points) at each election, coloured by the winning party's broad bloc (Congress / BJP / Left / other).

1951: Ganatantra Parishad margin 25.9 pts 1957: Ganatantra Parishad margin 0.5 pts 1962: Socialist Party margin 2.7 pts 1967: Indian National Congress margin 8.2 pts 1971: Indian National Congress margin 21.8 pts 1977: Bharatiya Lok Dal margin 19.0 pts 1980: Congress (I) margin 34.1 pts 1984: Indian National Congress margin 33.9 pts 1989: Janata Dal margin 17.2 pts 1991: Indian National Congress margin 7.1 pts 1996: Indian National Congress margin 13.1 pts 1998: Biju Janata Dal margin 3.6 pts 1999: Biju Janata Dal margin 18.3 pts 2004: Biju Janata Dal margin 1.8 pts 2009: Indian National Congress margin 1.9 pts 2014: Biju Janata Dal margin 3.1 pts 2019: Bharatiya Janata Party margin 0.8 pts 1951 1957 1962 1967 1971 1977 1980 1984 1989 1991 1996 1998 1999 2004 2009 2014 2019

Trend

Sambalpur has been contested at 17 Lok Sabha general elections on record since 1951. Parties that have won this seat over that span: Ganatantra Parishad, Socialist Party, Indian National Congress, Bharatiya Lok Dal, Congress (I), Janata Dal, Biju Janata Dal, Bharatiya Janata Party.

Frequently Asked Questions

Who won Sambalpur in the 2019 Lok Sabha election?

Nitesh Ganga Deb (Bharatiya Janata Party) won Sambalpur, Odisha, in 2019 with 473,770 votes (42.6%), a margin of 9,162 votes over Nalini Kanta Pradhan.

Which parties have won Sambalpur since 1951?

Since 1951, Sambalpur has been won by: Bharatiya Janata Party, Bharatiya Lok Dal, Biju Janata Dal, Congress (I), Ganatantra Parishad, Indian National Congress, Janata Dal, Socialist Party.

What was the closest result in Sambalpur?

The closest result on record for Sambalpur was 1957, when Ganatantra Parishad beat Ganatantra Parishad by just 2,153 votes (0.5 percentage points).

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