Balasore #2ST

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 2004

Won

Mahamegha Bahan Aira Kharbela Swain

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

2,36,955 25.0 pp

votes

over Niranjan Panda (INC)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors13,30,406

Votes polled9,48,450

Turnout71.3%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.81 L51.2% of electorate

Female electors6.49 L48.8% of electorate

Sex ratio 953females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Mahamegha Bahan Aira Kharbela Swain	BJP	5,53,087	58.30%
2	Niranjan Panda	INC	3,16,132	33.30%
3	Mrutyunjay Mohapatra	IND	28,247	3.00%
4	Nalini Kumar Jena	BSP	21,204	2.20%
5	Trailokya Nath Das	RPI	15,026	1.60%
6	Malayendra Kisor Chaudhuri	BMVP	13,873	1.50%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 881, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 947,569 · NOTA n/a · published 948,450 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2004