Balasore #2ST

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Mahameghabhan Aira Kharabela Swain

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

84,002 10.5 pp

votes

over Kartik Mohapatra (INC)

The contest

9 candidate rows

Electors11,99,981

Votes polled7,99,468

Turnout66.6%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.18 L51.5% of electorate

Female electors5.82 L48.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 943females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

9 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Mahameghabhan Aira Kharabela Swain	BJP	4,21,068	52.70%
2	Kartik Mohapatra	INC	3,37,066	42.20%
3	Dr. Ananta Majhi	JD	14,424	1.80%
4	Tapas Rath	IND	11,072	1.40%
5	Jagannath Lenka	PSSS	2,809	0.40%
6	Panchanan Parida	BSP	2,459	0.30%
7	Upendranath Mahanta	RJD	1,272	0.20%
8	Jagannath Patra	IND	899	0.10%
9	Dr. Kunja Bihari Dhal	ABP	852	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,547, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 791,921 · NOTA n/a · published 799,468 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998