Balasore #2ST

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Kartik Mohapatra

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

1,90,681 24.3 pp

votes

over Arun Dey (IND)

The contest

12 candidate rows

Electors11,36,681

Votes polled7,84,650

Turnout69.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.89 L51.8% of electorate

Female electors5.48 L48.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 931females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

12 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Kartik Mohapatra	INC	4,11,168	52.40%
2	Arun Dey	IND	2,20,487	28.10%
3	M.A. Kharabela Swain	BJP	99,409	12.70%
4	Upendranath Mahanta	IND	31,738	4.00%
5	Jugal Pattanaik	AIICT	7,272	0.90%
6	Chaitanya Sahu	JP	2,328	0.30%
7	Bhaskar Jena	PSSS	1,150	0.10%
8	Jagannath Patra	IND	1,075	0.10%
9	Ajaya Lenka	IND	843	0.10%
10	Parsuram Mohanty	IND	711	0.10%
11	Ghasiram Mahanta	IND	555	0.10%
12	Gajendranath Jena	IND	530	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,384, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 777,266 · NOTA n/a · published 784,650 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996