Constituency
320. Cuttack
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-CUTTACK
BJD 65.8%won by 33.1%INC 32.6%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.0% to 33.1%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.4% of the vote between them, up from 88.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.5% to 51.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,15,249
Turnout
51.0%
Valid votes
6,19,806
Margin
2,05,317
33.13%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJD- 1Bhartruhari MahtabBiju Janata Dal · BJD4,07,60365.8%
- 2Kanhu Charan LenkaIndian National Congress · INC2,02,28632.6%
- 3Dayanidhi SrichandanBOP · BOP3,1200.5%
- 4Byasakabi DasAJBP · AJBP3,0060.5%
- 5Nalini Kanta BisoiJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM1,9250.3%
- 6Shaikh Abdul WaliBRPP · BRPP1,4460.2%
- 7Prasanna Kumar ParidaIndependent · IND4200.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–INC swing
- +16.1%
- BJD share
- 52.9% → 65.8%
- INC share
- 35.9% → 32.6%
- Turnout
- 56.5% → 51.0%