Constituency
329. Phulbani
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1996
IN-PHULBANI
INC 41.8%won by 5.8%JD 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.3% to 5.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.9% between them, down from 86.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.3% to 55.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,48,821
Turnout
55.3%
Valid votes
5,79,857
Margin
33,658
5.80%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1MRUTYUNJYA NAYAKIndian National Congress · INC2,42,56541.8%
- 2PADMANAVA BEHERAJanata Dal · JD2,08,90736.0%
- 3SANJIT KUMAR MANDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP65,20711.2%
- 4UGRESAN NAYAKJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM35,1946.1%
- 5TAPANA BEHERAIndependent · IND8,1501.4%
- 6KUBERA BEHERAIndependent · IND6,6451.1%
- 7ALEKHA DIGALIndependent · IND4,1330.7%
- 8BHAGABAN GANDAIndependent · IND2,6630.5%
- 9PANCHANAN DASIndependent · IND2,6080.4%
- 10NAKUL NAYAKSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2,3330.4%
- 11DEBANONDA DIGALIndependent · IND1,4520.3%
Since 1991
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–JD swing
- −5.5%
- INC share
- 48.7% → 41.8%
- JD share
- 37.4% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- 49.9% → 55.3%