Bolangir #16SC

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Sangeeta Kumari Singhdeo

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

1,58,531 26.7 pp

votes

over Sarat Pattanayak (INC)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors10,21,226

Votes polled5,94,115

Turnout58.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.32 L52.1% of electorate

Female electors4.9 L47.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 921females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Sangeeta Kumari Singhdeo	BJP	3,60,575	60.70%
2	Sarat Pattanayak	INC	2,02,044	34.00%
3	Pradeep Kumar Maharana	JD	14,814	2.50%
4	Lalit Mohan Gandhi	OC	4,048	0.70%
5	Abdul Jamalkhan	RJD	2,423	0.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,211, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 583,904 · NOTA n/a · published 594,115 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998