Constituency
328. Kalahandi
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-KALAHANDI
BJP 57.9%won by 18.1%INC 39.8%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.7% to 18.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,60,990
Turnout
60.6%
Valid votes
6,42,488
Margin
1,16,519
18.14%
Candidates
5 contested · winner BJP- 1Bikram Keshari DeoBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,71,91157.9%
- 2Bhakta Charan DasIndian National Congress · INC2,55,39239.8%
- 3Biranchi PandaShiv Sena · SHS10,1691.6%
- 4Dr Biswajit HotaAJBP · AJBP4,2310.7%
- 5Ananda Kumar PatraIndependent · IND7850.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–INC swing
- −1.5%
- BJP share
- 56.5% → 57.9%
- INC share
- 36.9% → 39.8%
- Turnout
- 60.0% → 60.6%