A voting percentage of 22.64 was recorded in the first four hours of polling in Odisha's six Lok Sabha seats and 42 Assembly segments on Saturday where simultaneous elections are taking place.Around one crore people are going to exercise their .
Over 900 candidates are in the fray in the final phase, which will cover all the constituencies of Punjab and Himachal Pradesh along with key seats in states like Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and West Bengal.
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Odisha 2024 Lok Sabha polls: Politically, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has clinched victory from this Lok Sabha seat on four occasions. However, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) emerged victorious for the first time in the 2014 election, marking a shift from the historical dominance of the Congress party post-independence. Notably, in the 1967 elections, the Communist Party of India secured its foothold in this constituency with Samarendra Kundu emerging victorious.
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