Bhubaneswar #9GEN

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Sivaji Patnaik

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

5,469 2.2 pp

votes

over Chintamani Panigrahi (INC)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors6,09,164

Votes polled2,46,013

Turnout40.4%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.23 L53.1% of electorate

Female electors2.86 L46.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 884females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Sivaji Patnaik	CPIM	1,06,960	43.50%
2	Chintamani Panigrahi	INC	1,01,491	41.30%
3	Gangadhar Paikaray	CPI	29,778	12.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 7,784, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 238,229 · NOTA n/a · published 246,013 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977