Constituency
319. Kendrapara
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-KENDRAPARA
BJD 57.9%won by 16.5%INC 41.5%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.2% to 16.5%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 99.4% of the vote between them, up from 85.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.1% to 55.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,21,183
Turnout
55.3%
Valid votes
6,20,436
Margin
1,02,139
16.46%
Candidates
3 contested · winner BJD- 1Prabhat Kumar SamantrayBiju Janata Dal · BJD3,59,31457.9%
- 2Archana NayakIndian National Congress · INC2,57,17541.5%
- 3Baisnab Charan ParidaIndependent · IND3,9470.6%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–INC swing
- +15.3%
- BJD share
- 43.3% → 57.9%
- INC share
- 42.1% → 41.5%
- Turnout
- 59.5% → 55.3%