Phulbani #15GEN

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Mrutyunjya Nayak

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

33,658 5.7 pp

votes

over Padmanava Behera (JD)

The contest

11 candidate rows

Electors10,48,821

Votes polled5,92,938

Turnout56.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.41 L51.5% of electorate

Female electors5.08 L48.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 940females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

11 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Mrutyunjya Nayak	INC	2,42,565	40.90%
2	Padmanava Behera	JD	2,08,907	35.20%
3	Sanjit Kumar Mandal	BJP	65,207	11.00%
4	Ugresan Nayak	JMM	35,194	5.90%
5	Tapana Behera	IND	8,150	1.40%
6	Kubera Behera	IND	6,645	1.10%
7	Alekha Digal	IND	4,133	0.70%
8	Bhagaban Ganda	IND	2,663	0.40%
9	Panchanan Das	IND	2,608	0.40%
10	Nakul Nayak	SP	2,333	0.40%
11	Debanonda Digal	IND	1,452	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,081, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 579,857 · NOTA n/a · published 592,938 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996