Kendrapara #5ST

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Prabhat Kumar Samantaray

BJD Biju Janata Dal

Margin

7,825 1.2 pp

votes

over Archana Nayak (INC)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors10,99,066

Votes polled6,58,175

Turnout59.9%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.73 L52.2% of electorate

Female electors5.26 L47.8% of electorate

Sex ratio 917females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Prabhat Kumar Samantaray	BJD	2,82,736	43.00%
2	Archana Nayak	INC	2,74,911	41.80%
3	Srikanta Kumar Jena	JD	91,556	13.90%
4	Akshaya Kumar Mallik	BSP	3,033	0.50%
5	Dhirendra Das	SS	1,184	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 4,755, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 653,420 · NOTA n/a · published 658,175 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998