Bhubaneswar: Senior leader Bhartruhari Mahtab, who had resigned from the BJD and contested for the Cuttack Lok Sabha seat as a BJP candidate, secured victory in the constituency with a comprehensive margin of 57077 votes.

Mahtab, a six-time Cuttack MP, defeated his nearest rival BJD's Santrupt Misra, thereby winning the seat for the seventh consecutive time.

While Mahtab got 531601 votes (47.43%), 474524 (42.34%) votes were polled in favour of Misra.

Mahtab had made Cuttack Lok Sabha seat an unbreachable fort for the BJD by winning from the constituency in 1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014, and 2019.

He also managed to secure the constituency this time, but for BJP.

Mahtab had resigned from the BJD in March, a day after a special court framed charges against him in a 13-year-old case, in which he allegedly assaulted a police officer in Cuttack.

Below is candidate-wise data for Cuttack Lok Sabha Election 2024 Results:

S.N. Candidate Party EVM Votes Postal Votes Total Votes % of Votes
1 BHARTRUHARI MAHTAB Bharatiya Janata Party 529271 2330 531601 47.43
2 SANTRUPT MISRA Biju Janata Dal 473443 1081 474524 42.34
3 SURESH MOHAPATRA Indian National Congress 83461 354 83815 7.48
4 PRAMOD KUMAR MALLICK Bahujan Samaj Party 4461 23 4484 0.4
5 NIRANJAN PATI Independent 4390 6 4396 0.39
6 SOBHA PANDEY Independent 3878 10 3888 0.35
7 PRAKASH CHANDRA SAHOO Krupaa Party 3790 4 3794 0.34
8 RAJAKISHORE MALLIK Socialist Unity Centre Of India (COMMUNIST) 3072 3 3075 0.27
9 GOKULANANDA MISHRA Independent 1804 4 1808 0.16
10 MINATI PATNAIK Samruddha Odisha 1241 10 1251 0.11
11 NOTA None of the Above 8130 29 8159 0.73
Total 1116941 3854 1120795