Kalahandi #14GEN

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Rasabehari Behara

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

45,627 17.3 pp

votes

over Pratap Keshari Deo (JP)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors5,77,063

Votes polled2,63,826

Turnout45.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors2.81 L48.7% of electorate

Female electors2.96 L51.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,055females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Rasabehari Behara	INCI	1,27,413	48.30%
2	Pratap Keshari Deo	JP	81,786	31.00%
3	Kiran Chandra Singh Deo	JPS	25,071	9.50%
4	Dinabandhu Agarwal	IND	14,793	5.60%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 14,763, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 249,063 · NOTA n/a · published 263,826 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980