Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha Constituency of Odisha: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Bhubaneswar Parliamentary Constituency is one of the 21 constituencies of Lok Sabha in the state of Odisha. It was formed prior to the 1957 elections. It is composed of seven segments of Vidhan Sabha. 

Bhubaneswar registered 59.60 percent voter turnout in 2019, a gain of 1.37 percent. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1697666 while the total voter turnout is 1011754. While in 2014, the constituency registered 58.23 per cent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1525923 while the total voter's turnout was 888556.

Aparajita Sarangi of Bharatiya Janata Party, Arup Mohan Patnaik of Biju Janata Dal, Janardan Pati of Communist Party of India (Marxist), Subhranshu Sekhar Padhi of All India Trinamool Congress and Lalita Kumar Nayak of Bahujan Samaj Party are a few noted candidates for general election 2019 from the Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha Constituency of Odisha.

The Assembly Constituencies that fall in Bhubaneswar parliamentary constituency are Jayadev (SC), Bhubaneswar Central, Bhubaneswar North, Ekamra-Bhubaneswar, Jatani, Begunia and Khurda.

Here is the full list of candidates contesting the Lok Sabha election in 2019 from Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha Constituency of Odisha.

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	APARAJITA SARANGI	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Arup Mohan Patnaik	Biju Janata Dal
3	JANARDAN PATI	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
4	SUBHRANSHU SEKHAR PADHI	All India Trinamool Congress
5	LALITA KUMAR NAYAK	Bahujan Samaj Party
6	PRAMILA BEHERA	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star
7	BISWANATH ROUT	Krupaa Party
8	BISWANATH RAMACHANDRA	Freethought Party of India
9	BHAKTA SEKHAR RAY	Kalinga Sena
10	JAYANT KUMAR DAS	Independent
11	MADHU SUDAN YADAV	Independent
12	MAHESH CHANDRA SETHI	Independent
13	SANJAYA KUMAR SAHOO	Independent
14	Susil Kumar Jena	Independent

The election here was conducted on April 23, 2019, as per the Phase III schedule announced by the ECI. The results will be declared on May 23.

Dr (Prof) Prasanna Kumar Patasani of BJD is the incumbent Member of Parliament from this constituency. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, Patasani bagged 439252 votes and decimated Prithiviraj Harichandan of the BJP.