Constituency
320. Cuttack
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-CUTTACK
JD 26.3%won by 4.4%INC 21.8%
What changed here
DerivedJanata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.6% to 4.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 23.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 48.1% between them, down from 92.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.7% to 62.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,27,256
Turnout
62.1%
Valid votes
13,10,508
Margin
57,807
4.41%
Candidates
18 contested · winner JD- 1BIJU PATNAIKJanata Dal · JD3,44,09226.3%
- 2ANADI CHARAN SAHUIndian National Congress · INC2,86,28521.8%
- 3Anadi Charan SahuIndian National Congress · INC2,69,77320.6%
- 4Bhartruhari MahtabJanata Dal · JD2,42,16618.5%
- 5Shyamanamda MahapatraBharatiya Janata Party · BJP97,3907.4%
- 6NAYAN PRASADBharatiya Janata Party · BJP57,8904.4%
- 7TRAILOKYA OJHAPSSS · PSSS2,5510.2%
- 8PRAVAT KUMAR DASBOP · BOP2,0880.2%
- 9DHRUBA CHARAN SAHUIndependent · IND1,3350.1%
- 10Kaka Joginder Singh URF 'Dharti Pakad'Independent · IND1,2800.1%
- 11BRUNDABAN DASIndependent · IND1,2770.1%
- 12ANADA CHANDRA GURUIndependent · IND9790.1%
- 13HAREKRUSHAN MALLICKIndependent · IND7180.1%
- 14PRASANNA KUMAR PARIDAIndependent · IND6680.1%
- 15PRADYUMNA KUMAR BHUYANIndependent · IND6270.0%
- 16MANASA RANJAN DUTTAIndependent · IND5750.0%
- 17CHITA RANJAN DASIndependent · IND5190.0%
- 18NILACHALA PANDAIndependent · IND2950.0%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- JD
- JD–INC swing
- −3.2%
- JD share
- 49.9% → 26.3%
- INC share
- 42.3% → 21.8%
- Turnout
- 58.4% → 62.1%