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331. Sambalpur

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Odisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-SAMBALPUR

BJD 57.6%won by 18.3%INC 39.2%

What changed here

Derived

Biju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.6% to 18.3%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.8% of the vote between them, up from 87.9% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
11,90,344
Turnout
58.2%
Valid votes
6,92,437
Margin
1,26,963
18.34%

Candidates

5 contested · winner BJD
  1. 1Prasanna AcharyaBiju Janata Dal · BJD3,98,59757.6%
  2. 2Dr. Krupasindhu BhoiIndian National Congress · INC2,71,63439.2%
  3. 3Rabindra MegBahujan Samaj Party · BSP13,9042.0%
  4. 4Rabinarayan PadhiAJBP · AJBP5,9020.9%
  5. 5Shiv Shankar BaghIndependent · IND2,4000.3%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
BJD
Winner now
BJD
BJD–INC swing
+14.7%
BJD share
45.8% → 57.6%
INC share
42.1% → 39.2%
Turnout
58.7% → 58.2%
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