Balasore #2ST

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Chintamani Jena

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

1,39,889 35.1 pp

votes

over Samarendra Kundu (JP)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors6,73,732

Votes polled3,98,950

Turnout59.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.57 L53.0% of electorate

Female electors3.17 L47.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 887females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Chintamani Jena	INCI	2,29,040	57.40%
2	Samarendra Kundu	JP	89,151	22.30%
3	Kamini Kanta Patnayak	JPS	43,820	11.00%
4	Prasanna Kumar Paul	INCU	10,718	2.70%
5	Padmalochan Mahanta	JP	9,162	2.30%
6	Ramanath Patra	IND	2,976	0.70%
7	Kamalini Patra	IND	2,759	0.70%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,324, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 387,626 · NOTA n/a · published 398,950 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980