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Bhadrak #3GEN
Won
Muralidhar Jena
INC Indian National CongressMargin
64,572 8.9 pp
votes
over Ratha Das (JD)
The contest
Electors11,29,875
Votes polled7,22,571
Turnout64.0%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.88 L52.0% of electorate
Female electors5.42 L48.0% of electorate
Sex ratio
921females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Muralidhar Jena | INC | 3,36,265 | 46.50% | |
| 2 | Ratha Das | JD | 2,71,693 | 37.60% | |
| 3 | Bishnu Charan Sethy | BJP | 96,566 | 13.40% | |
| 4 | Sridhar Jena | IND | 3,714 | 0.50% | |
| 5 | Basanti Mallik | IND | 2,871 | 0.40% | |
| 6 | Suratha Jena | IND | 1,111 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Khageswar Jena | IND | 855 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | Mangulia Jena | IND | 751 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | Sudarsan Jena | IND | 492 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | Pratap Das | IND | 466 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,787, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 714,784 · NOTA n/a · published 722,571 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
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- 2026-09-12