Puri #8SC

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Braja Kishore Tripathy

BJD Biju Janata Dal

Margin

52,545 7.5 pp

votes

over Pinaki Mishra (INC)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors11,40,488

Votes polled7,04,808

Turnout61.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.94 L52.1% of electorate

Female electors5.46 L47.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 919females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Braja Kishore Tripathy	BJD	3,58,978	50.90%
2	Pinaki Mishra	INC	3,06,433	43.50%
3	Durga Charan Routray	JD	14,287	2.00%
4	Krushna Chandra Swain	IND	8,768	1.20%
5	Pitabasa Kandi	BSP	3,442	0.50%
6	Khitish Biswal	CPIML	3,121	0.40%
7	Himansu Mohapatra	RJD	1,853	0.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,926, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 696,882 · NOTA n/a · published 704,808 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998