State board · Lok Sabha

Odisha Lok Sabha 1998

Results board · 21 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateOdisha

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 21

Electors

2.34Cr

On the roll

Votes polled

1.36Cr

58.0% of electors

Median turnout

58.7%

Median of 21 seats

BJD short

−2

Below majority · 9 − 11

[01]Seat matrix

21 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won

Majority · 11 of 21BJD 9 · 2 short of majority

BJD 942.9% Biju Janata Dal

BJP 733.3% Bharatiya Janata Party

INC 523.8% Indian National Congress

State level, as published

INC 41.0%5 seats · 23.8%

BJD 27.5%9 seats · 42.9%

BJP 21.2%7 seats · 33.3%

JD 4.9%0 seats

JMM 2.1%0 seats

Others 3.3%0 seats · 0.0%

Alliances

NDA 48.7%16 seats

UPA 41.0%5 seats

THIRD FRONT 6.3%0 seats

OTHERS 4.0%Seats not published

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

BJD converted 27.5% of votes into 42.9% of seats, a seat premium of 15.4 pp.
9 ÷ 21 = 42.9% · 42.9 − 27.5 = +15.4
INC polled 41.0% of votes, the highest share, but won 5 seats (23.8%).
5 ÷ 21 = 23.8% · 23.8 − 41.0 = −17.2
Kendrapara was decided by 7,825 votes, the closest of 21 seats; Bolangir had the widest margin, 1,58,531.
min / max of margin over 21 seats with a recorded margin
In ST-reserved seats BJD won 1 of 5 (20.0%), against 42.9% of all seats.
1 ÷ 5 = 20.0% · 9 ÷ 21 = 42.9%
Turnout ran from 47.3% in Koraput to 66.6% in Balasore; the median seat polled 58.7%.
min / median / max over 21 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

21 of 21 seats carry a turnout

< 50% 14.8% of seats

50–60 1361.9% of seats

60–70 733.3% of seats

70–80 00.0% of seats

≥ 80% 00.0% of seats

LowestKoraput47.3%
HighestBalasore66.6%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

21 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, Odisha Lok Sabha 1998, all 21 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
01	Mayurbhanj	Salkhan Murmu	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,05,559	74,319	12.3	65.3
02	BalasoreST	Mahameghabhan Aira Kharabela Swain	Bharatiya Janata Party	7,99,468	84,002	10.5	66.6
03	Bhadrak	Arjun Charan Sethi	Biju Janata Dal	7,07,522	33,578	4.7	60.8
04	JajpurST	Rama Chandra Mallick	Indian National Congress	6,26,155	91,864	14.7	55.0
05	KendraparaSTCLOSEST	Prabhat Kumar Samantaray	Biju Janata Dal	6,58,175	7,825	1.2	59.9
06	Cuttack	Bhartruhari Mahatab	Biju Janata Dal	6,68,198	1,12,694	16.9	57.0
07	JagatsinghpurSC	Ranjib Biswal	Indian National Congress	7,59,243	19,929	2.6	64.2
08	PuriSC	Braja Kishore Tripathy	Biju Janata Dal	7,04,808	52,545	7.5	61.8
09	Bhubaneswar	Prasamna Kumar Patasani	Biju Janata Dal	6,62,966	1,27,908	19.3	53.2
10	Aska	Naveen Patnaik	Biju Janata Dal	5,85,846	86,211	14.7	51.0
11	Berhampur	Smt. Jayanti Patnaik	Indian National Congress	5,64,119	35,240	6.2	50.8
12	KoraputST	Giridhar Gamang	Indian National Congress	5,13,511	81,516	15.9	47.3
13	Nowrangpur	Khagapati Pradhani	Indian National Congress	5,86,689	73,935	12.6	55.9
14	Kalahandi	Bikram Keshari Deo	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,21,213	1,19,914	19.3	61.1
15	Phulbani	Padmanava Behera	Biju Janata Dal	6,15,132	91,072	14.8	56.2
16	BolangirSCWIDEST	Sangeeta Kumari Singhdeo	Bharatiya Janata Party	5,94,115	1,58,531	26.7	58.2
17	Sambalpur	Prasanna Acharya	Biju Janata Dal	6,91,446	24,768	3.6	59.8
18	Deogarh	Debendra Pradhan	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,77,421	1,05,427	15.6	59.8
19	Dhenkanal	Tathagata Satapathy	Biju Janata Dal	5,93,670	32,511	5.5	54.4
20	Sundargarh	Jual Oram	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,80,038	1,26,028	18.5	58.7
21	KeonjharST	Upendranath Nayak	Bharatiya Janata Party	6,59,477	86,275	13.1	62.4

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 1,58,531 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1998 · Odisha · 21 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database