Puri #8SC

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Padmacharan Samantasinhar

BLD Bharatiya Lok Dal

Margin

70,541 23.5 pp

votes

over Banamali Patnaik (INC)

The contest

2 candidate rows

Electors6,24,267

Votes polled3,00,554

Turnout48.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.26 L52.2% of electorate

Female electors2.98 L47.8% of electorate

Sex ratio 915females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

2 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Padmacharan Samantasinhar	BLD	1,79,802	59.80%
2	Banamali Patnaik	INC	1,09,261	36.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,491, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 289,063 · NOTA n/a · published 300,554 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977