Constituency
323. Bhubaneswar
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BHUBANESWAR
BJD 57.6%won by 19.4%INC 38.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Biju Janata Dal (BJD), which now leads by 19.4%.
- BJD vote shareBJD went from 0.0% to 57.6% of the vote here (+57.6%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.8% of the vote between them, up from 82.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,46,119
Turnout
52.8%
Valid votes
6,57,633
Margin
1,27,908
19.45%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJD- 1PRASAMNA KUMAR PATASANIBiju Janata Dal · BJD3,78,84957.6%
- 2SAUMYA RANJAN PATTANAIKIndian National Congress · INC2,50,94138.2%
- 3SHIVAJI PATTANAIKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,6112.7%
- 4BHAGABAT BEHERARashtriya Janata Dal · RJD5,7910.9%
- 5KAMALA PRASAD TRIPATHYShiv Sena · SHS3,3950.5%
- 6KULAMANI SAHOOIndependent · IND1,0460.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- BJDflipped
- BJD–INC swing
- +66.9%
- BJD share
- 0.0% → 57.6%
- INC share
- 47.4% → 38.2%
- Turnout
- 52.0% → 52.8%