Constituency
315. Mayurbhanj
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-MAYURBHANJ
BJP 53.0%won by 26.1%INC 26.9%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.5% to 26.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 79.9% of the vote between them, up from 71.6% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.9% to 58.9%.
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Electorate
9,64,354
Turnout
58.9%
Valid votes
5,68,018
Margin
1,48,082
26.07%
Candidates
6 contested · winner BJP- 1Salkhan MurmuBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,00,90253.0%
- 2Kamala TiriaIndian National Congress · INC1,52,82026.9%
- 3Bhadav HansdahJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM92,72916.3%
- 4Sankha MajhiIndependent · IND9,9431.8%
- 5Khelaram MahaliIndependent · IND7,5091.3%
- 6Laxmiswar Tamudia Alias NagNationalist Congress Party · NCP4,1150.7%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- +13.5%
- BJP share
- 42.1% → 53.0%
- INC share
- 29.5% → 26.9%
- Turnout
- 63.8% → 58.9%