2024-06-01 19:28:45
NEW DELHI: The exit poll for the Odisha Lok Sabha elections 2024 was announced on Saturday.
Exit polls predict that BJP is likely to win 16-17 seats and BJD 4-5 seats.
According to exit poll predictions by Jann Ki Baat, BJP will get 15-18 seats while BJD will get 7-3 seats. Further, C-Voter has predicted that BJP is likely to get 17-19 seats, BJD 1-3 and INDIA bloc 0-1 seats.Matrize has predicted that BJP is likely to win 9 -12 seats, BJD 7 – 10 seats and and Congress 1 seat.
Voting for the 21 Lok Sabha seats of the state was held in four phases 4-7.
Four Lok Sabha seats in southern and western parts—Kalahandi, Koraput, Nabarangpur and Berhampur — and 28 assembly seats under these parliamentary segments voted on May 13 during the fourth phase. In the subsequent phase on May 20, five Lok Sabha seats in western and interior pockets — Bargarh, Sundargarh, Balangir, Kandhamal and Aska — and 35 assembly constituencies voted in Odisha.
Six Lok Sabha seats each and 42 assembly seats falling under the areas voted in the sixth and seventh phases on May 25 and June 1.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, the BJD had won 12 out of the 21 seats in the state with a vote share of 42.08%. The BJP won 8 seat with a vote share of 38.4% and INC was decimated as it could win only 1 seat, getting nearly 13.4% of the votes. It was a very close election with 15 of 21 seats decided on a victory margin of less than 10%. The BJD and BJP won seven each.
In 2014, Naveen Pattanaiks’s BJD had won 20 Lok Sabha seats, while BJP had emerged victorious only on 1 seat.
The 21 Lok Sabha constituencies in the state are Kalahandi, Nabarangpur, Berhampur, Koraput, Bargarh, Sundargarh, Bolangir, Kandhamal, Aska, Sambalpur, Keonjhar, Dhenkanal, Cuttack, Puri, Bhubaneswar, Mayurbhanj, Balasore, Bhadrak, Jajpur, Kendrapara, Jagatsinghpur.