Constituency
327. Nowrangpur
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-NOWRANGPUR
INC 50.1%won by 13.2%BJP 36.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.0% to 13.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Dal (JD) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.9% of the vote between them, up from 79.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.3% to 53.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,49,764
Turnout
53.4%
Valid votes
5,60,205
Margin
73,935
13.20%
Candidates
5 contested · winner INC- 1KHAGAPATI PRADHANIIndian National Congress · INC2,80,44450.1%
- 2PARSURAM MAJHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,06,50936.9%
- 3BHAGABAN MAJHIJanata Dal · JD68,52612.2%
- 4SANTOSH MONIJANIRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD3,5640.6%
- 5HARABOTI GONDIndependent · IND1,1620.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −24.0%
- INC share
- 58.0% → 50.1%
- BJP share
- 20.9% → 36.9%
- Turnout
- 55.6% → 53.4%