Aska #10GEN

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Naveen Patnaik

BJD Biju Janata Dal

Margin

86,211 14.7 pp

votes

over Chandra Sekhar Sahoo (INC)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors11,48,338

Votes polled5,85,846

Turnout51.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.1 L53.1% of electorate

Female electors5.39 L46.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 884females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Naveen Patnaik	BJD	3,10,751	53.00%
2	Chandra Sekhar Sahoo	INC	2,24,540	38.30%
3	Nityananda Pradhan	CPI	41,400	7.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,155, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 576,691 · NOTA n/a · published 585,846 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998