Phulbani #15GEN

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Padmanava Behera

BJD Biju Janata Dal

Margin

91,072 14.8 pp

votes

over Mrutyunjaya Nayak (INC)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors10,94,059

Votes polled6,15,132

Turnout56.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.64 L51.6% of electorate

Female electors5.3 L48.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 939females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Padmanava Behera	BJD	3,32,786	54.10%
2	Mrutyunjaya Nayak	INC	2,41,714	39.30%
3	Lecturer Bullion	JD	26,785	4.40%
4	Kailash Kumar Mukhi	SS	4,337	0.70%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,510, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 605,622 · NOTA n/a · published 615,132 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998