Sambalpur #17GEN

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Prasanna Acharya

BJD Biju Janata Dal

Margin

24,768 3.6 pp

votes

over Dr. Krupasindhu Bhoi (INC)

The contest

9 candidate rows

Electors11,56,375

Votes polled6,91,446

Turnout59.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.16 L53.2% of electorate

Female electors5.41 L46.8% of electorate

Sex ratio 879females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

9 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Prasanna Acharya	BJD	3,10,870	45.00%
2	Dr. Krupasindhu Bhoi	INC	2,86,102	41.40%
3	Bijaya Singh Bariha	JD	44,516	6.40%
4	Rabindra Megha	BSP	14,864	2.10%
5	Bhabani Sankar Hota	SP	9,364	1.40%
6	Rabinarayan Padhi	ABP	5,016	0.70%
7	Kuberjal Yadav	SP	4,088	0.60%
8	Surya Prakash Mohapatra	IND	2,237	0.30%
9	Radhakanta Bohidar	SJPR	2,139	0.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,250, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 679,196 · NOTA n/a · published 691,446 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998