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Balasore #2ST
Won
Kartikeswar Patra
INC Indian National CongressMargin
13,218 2.2 pp
votes
over Samarendra Kundu (JD)
The contest
Electors9,95,301
Votes polled6,11,825
Turnout61.5%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.34 L53.7% of electorate
Female electors4.61 L46.3% of electorate
Sex ratio
863females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kartikeswar Patra | INC | 2,66,139 | 43.50% | |
| 2 | Samarendra Kundu | JD | 2,52,921 | 41.30% | |
| 3 | Kalyankumar Raymahasay | BJP | 61,360 | 10.00% | |
| 4 | Aswani Kumar Pal | IND | 9,111 | 1.50% | |
| 5 | Maheswar Bag | JP | 6,293 | 1.00% | |
| 6 | Surya Hansada | IND | 4,105 | 0.70% | |
| 7 | Pitambar Bhuyan | PBI | 1,221 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Manoranjan Das | OVP | 1,116 | 0.20% | |
| 9 | Anam Dhinda | BSP | 760 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | Gajendranath Jena | DP | 425 | 0.10% | |
| 11 | Gopinath Mallik | IND | 335 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 8,039, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 603,786 · NOTA n/a · published 611,825 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1991
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- 2026-09-12