Nabarangpur Lok Sabha constituency of Odisha: Full list of candidates, polling dates

Nabarangpur Lok Sabha constituency of Odisha: Full list of candidates, polling dates

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Nabarangpur 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 11.

Nabarangpur registered 78.89 percent voter turnout in 2019, a gain of 0.17 percent. The total number of electors in the constituency is 1460610 while the total voter turnout is 1152346. While in 2014, the constituency registered 78.72 percent voter turnout. The total number of electors in the constituency was 1297063 while the total voter's turnout was 1020989.

Nabarangpur Constituency covers seven assembly segments –  Umerkote, Jharigam, Nabarangpur, Dabugam, Kotpad, Malkangiri and Chitrakonda.

The first phase of voting in Nabarangpur - one of the four parliamentary constituencies of Odisha where polling was held - ended on April 11. The fate of 4 contesting candidates will be decided on May 23 when counting of votes takes place and the result is declared. The total voter turnout recorded in Odisha was 66 per cent.

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

1	CHANDRADHWAJ MAJHI	Bahujan Samaj Party
2	PRADEEP KUMAR MAJHI	Indian National Congress
4	BALABHADRA MAJHI	Bharatiya Janata Party
6	RAMESH CHANDRA MAJHI	Biju Janata Dal

In the 2014 Lok Sabha election, Balabhadra Majhi of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) – won with a  marginal number of over 20 thousand votes. He had defeated Indian National Congress (INC) Pradeep Kumar Majhi.

Bharatiya Janata Party's Parsuram Majhi, and Bahujan Samaj Party's Gopinath Jani were other candidates in the fray.

In the year 2009, INC's Pradeep Kumar Majhi had defeated BJD's Domburu Majhi by getting a margin of 29 thousand votes.

The voter turnout across 1457 polling stations for this election here was 65.14 per cent. Some of the other candidates in the fray were BJP's Parsuram Majhi.