Constituency
309. Bhadrak
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1991
IN-BHADRAK
JD 43.3%won by 1.8%INC 41.5%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.2% to 1.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.8% between them, down from 98.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 8.2% to 60.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,80,232
Turnout
60.4%
Valid votes
5,92,297
Margin
10,939
1.85%
Candidates
10 contested · winner JD- 1ARJUN CHARAN SETHIJanata Dal · JD2,56,69043.3%
- 2NETRA NAND MALLIKIndian National Congress · INC2,45,75141.5%
- 3BISHNU CHARAN SETHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP67,80811.4%
- 4MANGARAJ MALLICKJanahitha Paksha · JP10,4701.8%
- 5GOPAL CHARAN DASPBI · PBI3,7370.6%
- 6KANHEI DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,8700.5%
- 7RAMCHANDRA PATRAOVP · OVP2,6890.5%
- 8DAMODAR DASIndependent · IND1,3680.2%
- 9NITYANANDA JENAIndependent · IND7410.1%
- 10SUBASH CHANDRA BEHERADDP · DDP1730.0%
Since 1989
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–INC swing
- −14.4%
- JD share
- 57.3% → 43.3%
- INC share
- 41.1% → 41.5%
- Turnout
- 68.6% → 60.4%