Kalinga Times Correspondent
Bhubaneswar, May 16: The candidates of Biju Janata Dal were declared winners in 103 Assembly constituencies in Odisha on Saturday when results were announced for 145 of the total 147 seats.

The party had contested in 129 Assembly seats. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik was elected from Hinjili seat.

Congress won from 26 Assembly segments, while the BJP won just six seats. The six seats included two in Kandhamal district.

Of the remaining seats, NCP won four, CPI one and others in five seats.

BJD also performed excellently well in the Lok Sabha polls. It won 14 seats, while Congress managed to bag six seats – Kalahandi, Bargarh, Nawarangpur, Sundargarh, Balasore and Sambalpur.

Congress nominee and former Chief Minister Gamang lost the polls in Koraput Lok Sabha constituency seat. Congress lost the elections in the seat for the first time.

The BJP got fully rejected as if failed to open its account in respect of Lok Sabha polls.

CPI, which had entered into seat sharing arrangement with BJD, won the Jagatsinghpur Lok Sabha seat.

The Lok Sabha seats that BJD won are Koraput, Berhampur, Aska, Kandhamal, Bolangir, Dhenkanal, Puri, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack, Kendrapara, Jajpur, Bhadrak, Keonjhar and Mayurbhanj.

The results for Chitrakonda and Champua Assembly segments could not be declared as counting was postponed following defects in EVMs.