Bhubaneswar #9GEN

ODISHA · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Prasamna Kumar Patasani

BJD Biju Janata Dal

Margin

1,27,908 19.3 pp

votes

over Saumya Ranjan Pattanaik (INC)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors12,46,119

Votes polled6,62,966

Turnout53.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.74 L54.1% of electorate

Female electors5.72 L45.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 848females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Prasamna Kumar Patasani	BJD	3,78,849	57.10%
2	Saumya Ranjan Pattanaik	INC	2,50,941	37.90%
3	Shivaji Pattanaik	CPIM	17,611	2.70%
4	Bhagabat Behera	RJD	5,791	0.90%
5	Kamala Prasad Tripathy	SS	3,395	0.50%
6	Kulamani Sahoo	IND	1,046	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 5,333, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 657,633 · NOTA n/a · published 662,966 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998