Early trends predict a win for Naveen Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal for the parliamentary as well as assembly seats. According to the Election Commission, the BJD is leading with 8 seats so far for the Lok Sabha seats while for the assembly elections BJD so far has 23 seats.
BJD has 39% vote share so far. While theBJP has 37.4% vote share it is leading in 4 seats out of 12 constituencies.
If BJD continues to lead it would mean a record win for Odisha’s Chief Minister of 19 yearsNaveen Patnaik , who would manage to emerge victorious even with BJP’s growing influence.
Interestingly, BJP used to be an ally for the BJD until 2009 when the two parties split up reportedly due to seat allocation differences.
Naveen Patnaik, has gone on to win a record fifth term as the Chief Minister of the state. However, in the past year, several BJD top leaders exited the party – with founding member and Kendrapada MP Baijayant Panda joining the BJP. Panda went on to be the National Vice-President of the BJP.
While rumours of his ill-health have also been doing the rounds, to dissipate those rumours, Patnaik even released a video of him working out and also gave out interviews while in the gym.
Patnaik comes from one of Odisha’s political legacy families. His father Biju Patnaik was the third Chief Minister of the state from the Janata Dal. When his father had passed away in 1997, Naveen Patnaik fought Lok Sabha elections to win from the Aska parliamentary constituency. Three years later, in the Assembly elections, Patnaik, having formed his political party Biju Janata Dal, went on to win the elections.
In the 2014 assembly elections inOdisha , Patnaik’s BJD won by securing 117 seats out of the 147 seats in the state assembly.
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Odisha Lok Sabha Election Result 2019
BJD has 39% vote share so far. While the
If BJD continues to lead it would mean a record win for Odisha’s Chief Minister of 19 years
Interestingly, BJP used to be an ally for the BJD until 2009 when the two parties split up reportedly due to seat allocation differences.
Naveen Patnaik, has gone on to win a record fifth term as the Chief Minister of the state. However, in the past year, several BJD top leaders exited the party – with founding member and Kendrapada MP Baijayant Panda joining the BJP. Panda went on to be the National Vice-President of the BJP.
While rumours of his ill-health have also been doing the rounds, to dissipate those rumours, Patnaik even released a video of him working out and also gave out interviews while in the gym.
Patnaik comes from one of Odisha’s political legacy families. His father Biju Patnaik was the third Chief Minister of the state from the Janata Dal. When his father had passed away in 1997, Naveen Patnaik fought Lok Sabha elections to win from the Aska parliamentary constituency. Three years later, in the Assembly elections, Patnaik, having formed his political party Biju Janata Dal, went on to win the elections.
In the 2014 assembly elections in
See Also:
Odisha Lok Sabha Election Result 2019
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