The counting of votes for bypoll to the Padampur Assembly Constituency in Odisha’s Bargarh district was held today.

BJD’s Barsha Singh Bariha emerged victorious by defeating BJP’s Pradip Purohit by a margin of 42065 votes. While Barsha Singh Bariha got 119512 votes, as many as 77447 votes were polled in the favour of Pradip Purohit.

Congress finished at a distant third as Satya Bhusan Sahu got mere 3548 votes.

The counting was carried out in 23 rounds.

Below are round-wise results

After Round-23:

BJD- 119512

BJP- 77447

Cong- 3548

After Round-22:

BJD- 115169

BJP- 74424

Cong- 3435

After Round-21:

BJD- 109879

BJP- 71627

Cong- 3325

After  Round-20:

BJD- 104183

BJP- 68887

Cong- 3210

After  Round-19:

BJD- 98917

BJP- 65321

Cong- 3059

After  Round-18:

BJD- 94757

BJP- 62190

Cong- 2937

After  Round-17:

BJD- 89465

BJP- 59406

Cong- 2821

After  Round-16:

BJD- 85381

BJP- 55863

Cong- 2715

After  Round-15:

BJD- 79470

BJP- 51937

Cong- 2543

After Round-14: 

BJD- 74666

BJP- 48314

Cong- 2393

After Round-13: 

BJD- 69250

BJP- 45192

Cong- 2304

After Round-12: 

BJD- 64079

BJP- 42160

Cong- 2197

After Round-11: 

BJD- 59416

BJP- 38065

Cong- 2085

After Round-10:

BJD- 54173

BJP- 34748

Cong- 1992

After Round-9:

BJD- 48588

BJP- 31143

Cong- 1796

After Round-8:

BJD- 43691

BJP- 28150

Cong- 1634

After Round-7:

BJD- 37651

BJP- 25103

Cong- 1131

After Round-6:

BJD- 31886

BJP- 21182

Cong- 970

After Round-5:

BJD- 26198

BJP- 17816

Cong- 845

After Round-4:

BJD- 21837

BJP- 13659

Cong- 616

After Round-3:

BJD- 15916

BJP- 10150

Cong- 474

After Round-2:

BJD- 10598

BJP- 6979

Cong- 366

After Round-1: 

BJD- 5501

BJP- 3789

Cong- 206

Others-