Bhadrak #3GEN

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Arjun Charan Sethi

BJD Biju Janata Dal

Margin

33,578 4.7 pp

votes

over Muralidhar Jena (INC)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors11,63,610

Votes polled7,07,522

Turnout60.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.02 L51.8% of electorate

Female electors5.61 L48.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 932females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Arjun Charan Sethi	BJD	3,50,322	49.50%
2	Muralidhar Jena	INC	3,16,744	44.80%
3	Bairagi Jena	JD	27,863	3.90%
4	Akshaya Kumar Mallick	BSP	4,216	0.60%
5	Bichitrananda Das	SS	1,232	0.20%
6	Suratha Behera	IND	370	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 6,775, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 700,747 · NOTA n/a · published 707,522 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998