Bhubaneswar: The fifth round of counting ended and BJD candidates were still leading in both Tirtol and Balasore Sadar Assembly seats.
Results till the end of fifth round:
BJD’s Bijay Shankar Das, in Tirtol, was leading with 18,397 votes, followed by BJP’s Rajkishore Behera (11,997), Congress’s Himanshu Bhusan Mallick (2,247), CPI’s Bijay Kumar Bhoi (334), independent candidate Golap Majari Bhoi (52), independent candidate Ramesh Chandra Mallick (47), independent candidate Arjuna Charan Behera (47), independent candidate Sachitra Mallick (39), independent candidate Rabindra Nath Sethy (26) and NOTA (187).
Similarly, in Balasore Sadar constituency, BJD’s Swarup Kumar Das was leading as he polled 18,902 votes so far. At the same time, BJP’s Manas Kumar Dutta and Congress’s Mamata Kundu received 15,741 and 1,670 votes respectively. Independent candidates Benudhar Barik, Bhagyauddit Daspattanayak and Md Numan Khan bagged 158, 52 and 43 votes respectively. 109 votes polled as NOTA.
PNN