Constituency
328. Kalahandi
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-KALAHANDI
BJP 56.5%won by 19.7%INC 36.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Samajwadi Andolan Party (SAP) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 19.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 11.1% to 56.5% of the vote here (+45.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.4% of the vote between them, up from 61.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,16,062
Turnout
60.0%
Valid votes
6,09,588
Margin
1,19,914
19.67%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1BIKRAM KESHARI DEOBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,44,70356.5%
- 2BHAKTA CHARAN DASIndian National Congress · INC2,24,78936.9%
- 3DURYODHAN MAJHIJanata Dal · JD29,1074.8%
- 4RAJENDRA PRASAD KACHHIAIndependent · IND4,0910.7%
- 5NALINI PRABHA NAIKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,3980.6%
- 6BIRANCHI NARAYAN PANDAShiv Sena · SHS1,7870.3%
- 7DR. BISWAJIT HOTAAJBP · AJBP1,7130.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- SAP
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–INC swing
- +34.4%
- BJP share
- 11.1% → 56.5%
- INC share
- 25.8% → 36.9%
- Turnout
- 59.0% → 60.0%