Kalahandi #14GEN

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Pratap Keshari Deo

IND Independent

Margin

53,261 27.6 pp

votes

over Gangadhar Hota (BLD)

The contest

2 candidate rows

Electors5,42,033

Votes polled1,93,140

Turnout35.6%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors2.7 L49.7% of electorate

Female electors2.72 L50.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,010females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

2 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Pratap Keshari Deo	IND	1,17,816	61.00%
2	Gangadhar Hota	BLD	64,555	33.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,769, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 182,371 · NOTA n/a · published 193,140 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977