Balasore #2ST

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Samarendra Kundu

BLD Bharatiya Lok Dal

Margin

59,461 17.0 pp

votes

over Shyam Sundar Mahapatra (INC)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors6,15,737

Votes polled3,50,771

Turnout57.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.24 L52.6% of electorate

Female electors2.92 L47.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 902females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Samarendra Kundu	BLD	1,90,219	54.20%
2	Shyam Sundar Mahapatra	INC	1,30,758	37.30%
3	Pitambar Panda	CPI	20,283	5.80%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,511, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 341,260 · NOTA n/a · published 350,771 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977