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@014, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik broke the Narendra Modi wave in the state, winning 117 of the 147 assembly constituencies and 20 of the 21 Lok Sabha constituencies.
Of these 21 parliamentary constituencies, it had won three — Aska, Cuttack and Jajpur — by over three lakh votes, another three — Puri, Kendrapara and Jagatsinghpur — by over two lakh votes, and nine constituencies — Balasore, Berhampur, Bhadrak, Bhubaneswar, Balangir, Dhenkanal, Kandhamal, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj — by over one lakh votes.
In 2014, BJD’s relative weakness, barring in Balangir, was seen in Western Odisha. Bargarh, Kalahandi, Sambalpur and Koraput, all districts in the western part of Odisha, were won by the BJD but by thin margins. In 2014, the BJP’s lone win came from Sundargarh. In a closely fought battle, BJP candidate Jual Oram defeated BJD’s Dilip Kumar Tirkey by a slim margin of 18,829 votes. Congress’s Hemanand Biswal was in the third position.
Five years later, in 2019, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi having completed his first term, the BJP saw a dramatic rise in its fortunes in Odisha, especially in the parliamentary elections. While the BJD won 12, the BJP won eight and the Congress got one seat. The margin of victory in the three constituencies where the BJD had won by over three lakh votes in 2014 — Aska, the chief minister’s home turf, Cuttack and Jajpur — came down to over two lakh to over one lakh votes.
The margin of victory in the three constituencies where the BJD had won by over two lakh votes in 2014 — barring Jagatsinghpur — also saw a drastic drop in the winning margin with Puri turning out to be a closely fought battle. BJD’s Pinaki Misra defeated BJP’s Sambit Patra in Puri by a narrow margin of 11,714 votes.
Of the nine constituencies that the BJD had won by a margin of over one lakh votes in 2014, it lost four to the BJP in 2019, won four by thin margins and could retain just one with a similar margin. Of Balasore, Berhampur, Bhadrak, Bhubaneswar, Balangir, Dhenkanal, Kandhamal, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj in 2014, it lost four — Balasore, Bhubaneswar, Balangir and Mayurbhanj — to the BJP in 2019. Interestingly, the BJP won all these constituencies by thin margins.
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