Constituency
329. Phulbani
Community mirrorOdisha · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-PHULBANI
BJD 42.9%won by 2.4%INC 40.5%
What changed here
DerivedBiju Janata Dal held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.2% to 2.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 13.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.4% between them, down from 97.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 10.5% to 66.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,83,731
Turnout
66.5%
Valid votes
7,87,293
Margin
19,272
2.45%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJD- 1SUGRIB SINGHBiju Janata Dal · BJD3,37,95142.9%
- 2ABHIMANYU BEHERAIndian National Congress · INC3,18,67940.5%
- 3NAKUL NAYAKIndependent · IND60,6267.7%
- 4RAMACHANDRA NAIKIndependent · IND20,7872.6%
- 5BIDYADHAR URMABahujan Samaj Party · BSP17,1872.2%
- 6BISHNU CHARAN BEHERAIndependent · IND16,8622.1%
- 7Karunakar HaripalaRPI · RPI15,2011.9%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- BJD
- Winner now
- BJD
- BJD–INC swing
- −13.8%
- BJD share
- 56.6% → 42.9%
- INC share
- 40.4% → 40.5%
- Turnout
- 56.0% → 66.5%