Constituency
324. Aska
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-ASKA
BJD 53.9%won by 14.9%INC 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Janata Dal (JD) lost it to Biju Janata Dal (BJD), which now leads by 14.9%.
- BJD vote shareBJD went from 0.0% to 53.9% of the vote here (+53.9%).
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,48,338
Turnout
50.2%
Valid votes
5,76,691
Margin
86,211
14.95%
Candidates
3 contested · winner BJD- 1NAVEEN PATNAIKBiju Janata Dal · BJD3,10,75153.9%
- 2CHANDRA SEKHAR SAHOOIndian National Congress · INC2,24,54038.9%
- 3NITYANANDA PRADHANCommunist Party of India · CPI41,4007.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- JD
- Winner now
- BJDflipped
- BJD–INC swing
- +54.3%
- BJD share
- 0.0% → 53.9%
- INC share
- 39.4% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- 49.1% → 50.2%