Full list of candidates going to polls in Odisha in third phase of Lok Sabha election 2019

A total of 417 candidates are in the fray in the third phase of Lok Sabha election in Odisha and the votes will be cast at 10,464 booths polling stations on Tuesday.

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New Delhi: Odisha will on Tuesday witness voting in six Lok seats - Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Puri, Sambalpur, Keonjhar and Dhenkanal - in the third phase of general election along with 42 assembly seats. A total of 417 candidates are in the fray and the votes will be cast at 10,464 booths polling stations.

Of the 10,464 booths, arrangements have been made for deployment of Central Armed Police Force (CAPF) in 748 booths.

In the six seats in Odisha, the main contest in between the state's ruling BJD and the BJP. The BJD had won all the six seats in 2014.

Prominent candidates in the third phase are BJD MPs Bhartruhari Mahtab and Pinaki Mishra who are seeking re- election from Cuttack and Puri Lok Sabha seats respectively.
In Puri, Mishra is facing a stiff challenge from BJP's national spokesperson Sambit Patra.

For Mahtab, winning Cuttack might be an uphill task as the BJP has pitted former director general of CRPF and ex-DGP of Odisha, Prakash Mishra, against him. Also in the race is Congress nominee and ex-minister Panchanan Kanungo.

The prestigious Bhubaneswar parliamentary seat is witnessing an interesting fight with former IAS officer and BJP nominee Aparajita Sarangi crossing swords with former Mumbai police commissioner Arup Patnaik, who is in the fray as BJD candidate.

Of the total 92.56 lakh electorate, 44,56,729 are women and 1,163 belong to the third gender.

Here is the list of candidates going to polls in Odisha:

BHUBANESWAR

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

CUTTACK

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	PANCHANAN KANUNGO	Indian National Congress
2	PRAKASH MISHRA	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	PRAMOD KUMAR MALLICK	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	BHARTRUHARI MAHTAB	Biju Janata Dal
5	AKSHAYA KUMAR KAR	Krupaa Party
6	BISWAJIT GOSWAMI	Kalinga Sena
7	RAJAKISHORE MALLIK	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
8	SOMIYA RANJAN DAS	Bharat Prabhat Party
9	ASHOK PRADHAN	Independent
10	BRUNDABAN DAS AZAD	Independent
11	SANJAYA KUMAR SAHOO	Independent

DHENKANAL

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	RAJA KAMAKHYA PRASAD SINGH DEO	Indian National Congress
2	PRADYUMNA KUMAR NAIK	Bahujan Samaj Party
3	MAHESH SAHOO	Biju Janata Dal
4	RUDRA NARAYAN PANY	Bharatiya Janata Party
5	PRIYABRATA GARNAIK	Hindusthan Nirman Dal
6	BIJAYA KUMAR BEHERA	Ambedkarite Party of India
7	MANASI SWAIN	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
8	RANJAN KUMAR SAHOO	Bhartiya Manavadhikaar Federal Party
9	SAROJ KUMAR SATPATHY	Samata Kranti Dal

KEONJHAR

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	Ananta Nayak	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	Chandrani Murmu	Biju Janata Dal
3	Durga Chandra Pingua	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	Mohan Kumar Hembram	Indian National Congress
5	Prafulla Nayak	All India Forward Bloc
6	Ramesh Laguri	Bahujan Mukti Party
7	Dr. Sudarshan Lohar	Rashtriya Indepndent Morcha
8	Lalmohan Hansda	Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha

PURI

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	NRUSINGHA CHARAN DAS	Bahujan Samaj Party
2	PINAKI MISRA	Biju Janata Dal
3	SATYA PRAKASH NAYAK	Indian National Congress
4	Dr Sambit Patra	Bharatiya Janata Party
5	JAYAPRAKASH SETHI	Akhil Bharat Hindu Mahasabha
6	Mandakini Sethi	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation)
7	RANJAN MISHRA	Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) Red Star
8	Sabyasachi Mohapatra	Kalinga Sena

SAMBALPUR

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	NALINI KANTA PRADHAN	Biju Janata Dal
2	NITESH GANGA DEB	Bharatiya Janata Party
3	MD. MUSTUKIM	Bahujan Samaj Party
4	SARAT PATTANAYAK	Indian National Congress
5	Atma Ram Supkar	Pragatishil Samajwadi Party (Lohia)
6	ASHUTOSH KUMAR HANUMAN	Bharat Prabhat Party
7	NABAKISHORE PRADHAN	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)
8	PRABHAT KUMAR DHARUA	Gondvana Gantantra Party
9	BINAY OCEAN	Ambedkarite Party of India
10	SANTOSHINI KARNA	Ambedkar National Congress
11	KANHU CHARAN SANBAD	Independent

The third phase of polls will decide the fate of 417 candidates. Six women were among the 61 hopefuls in the Lok Sabha constituencies. In the assembly seats, 37 of the 356 nominees are women.