Kalahandi #14GEN

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Bikram Keshari Deo

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

1,19,914 19.3 pp

votes

over Bhakta Charan Das (INC)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors10,16,062

Votes polled6,21,213

Turnout61.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.25 L51.7% of electorate

Female electors4.91 L48.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 934females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Bikram Keshari Deo	BJP	3,44,703	55.50%
2	Bhakta Charan Das	INC	2,24,789	36.20%
3	Duryodhan Majhi	JD	29,107	4.70%
4	Rajendra Prasad Kachhia	IND	4,091	0.70%
5	Nalini Prabha Naik	BSP	3,398	0.50%
6	Biranchi Narayan Panda	SS	1,787	0.30%
7	Dr. Biswajit Hota	ABP	1,713	0.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,625, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 609,588 · NOTA n/a · published 621,213 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998