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

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Jajpur Lok Sabha Constituency, is one of 21 Lok Sabha constituencies in the eastern state of Odisha and cast its vote in the 2019 election on April 29.

Jajpur registered 73.76 per cent voter turnout in 2019, a loss of 1.46 per cent. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1472616 while the total voter turnout is 1086155. While in 2014, the constituency registered 75.22 per cent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1300745 while the total voter's turnout was 978360.

Amiya Kanta Mallick of Bharatiya Janata Party, Manas Jena of Indian National Congress and Sarmistha Sethi of Biju Janata Dal are a few noted candidates for general election 2019 from the Jajpur Lok Sabha Constituency of Odisha.

Votings for Lok Sabha election happened in 4 phases in Odisha – on April 11, April 18, April 23 and April 29. The results will be declared on May 23. 

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

SL. NO.	Candidate Name	Party Name
1	AMIYA KANTA MALLICK	Bharatiya Janata Party
2	MANAS JENA	Indian National Congress
3	SARMISTHA SETHI	Biju Janata Dal
4	TILOTTAMA SETHY	Proutist Bloc, India
5	BHIMA SEN BEHERA	Freethought Party of India
6	RANJIT MALIK	Bahujan Mukti Party
7	SUNAKAR BEHERA	Jai Prakash Janata Dal
8	SUBASA CHANDRA MALIK	SOCIALIST UNITY CENTRE OF INDIA (COMMUNIST)

Jajpur Lok Sabha constituency covers seven assembly segments –  Binjharpur, Bari, Barachana, Dharmasala, Jajpur, Korei and Sukinda.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Rita Tarai of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) – won with a huge margin of over 3 lakh votes. She had defeated Ashok Das of the Indian National Congress. While Tarai had secured 541349 votes Das got 221078 votes.