State board · Lok Sabha

Odisha Lok Sabha 1996

Results board · 21 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha

StateOdisha

Seats

Constituencies

Majority

Seats needed of 21

Electors

2.24Cr

On the roll

Votes polled

1.33Cr

59.2% of electors

Median turnout

59.7%

Median of 21 seats

INC lead

Above majority · 16 − 11

[01]Seat matrix

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

Majority · 11 of 21INC 16 · +5 above majority

INC 1676.2% Indian National Congress

JD 419.0% Janata Dal

SAP 14.8% Samata Party

State level, as published

INC 44.9%16 seats · 76.2%

JD 30.1%4 seats · 19.0%

BJP 13.4%0 seats

CPI(M) 1.7%0 seats

SAP 1.6%1 seat · 4.8%

Others 8.3%0 seats · 0.0%

Alliances

UPA 44.9%16 seats

THIRD FRONT 29.6%4 seats

NDA 13.4%1 seat

OTHERS 12.1%Seats not published

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

INC converted 44.9% of votes into 76.2% of seats, a seat premium of 31.3 pp.
16 ÷ 21 = 76.2% · 76.2 − 44.9 = +31.3
BJP polled 13.4% of votes, the 3rd-highest share, but won 0 seats (0.0%).
0 ÷ 21 = 0.0% · 0.0 − 13.4 = −13.4
Jajpur was decided by 3,873 votes, the closest of 21 seats; Nowrangpur had the widest margin, 2,03,804.
min / max of margin over 21 seats with a recorded margin
1 seat was won by a margin under 1%; JD won 1 of them.
count(margin % < 1.0) = 1 of 21 · JD 1
In ST-reserved seats INC won 3 of 5 (60.0%), against 76.2% of all seats.
3 ÷ 5 = 60.0% · 16 ÷ 21 = 76.2%
Turnout ran from 49.9% in Aska to 70.0% in Jagatsinghpur; the median seat polled 59.7%.
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 1047.6% of seats

60–70 942.9% of seats

70–80 14.8% of seats

≥ 80% 00.0% of seats

LowestAska49.9%
HighestJagatsinghpur70.0%
NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

21 rows · by constituency number

Constituency results, Odisha Lok Sabha 1996, all 21 seats
#	Constituency	Winner	Party	Votes polled	Margin	Margin %	Turnout %
01	Mayurbhanj	Sushila Tiriya	Indian National Congress	5,74,112	1,11,189	19.4	61.4
02	BalasoreST	Kartik Mohapatra	Indian National Congress	7,84,650	1,90,681	24.3	69.0
03	Bhadrak	Muralidhar Jena	Indian National Congress	7,22,571	64,572	8.9	64.0
04	JajpurSTCLOSEST	Anchal Das	Janata Dal	6,42,252	3,873	0.6	59.7
05	KendraparaST	Srikanta Kumar Jena	Janata Dal	6,55,988	39,712	6.1	62.7
06	Cuttack	Biju Patnaik	Janata Dal	7,08,148	57,807	8.2	62.8
07	JagatsinghpurSC	Ranjib Biswal	Indian National Congress	8,00,715	47,278	5.9	70.0
08	PuriSC	Pinaki Mishra	Indian National Congress	6,89,395	1,12,308	16.3	62.6
09	Bhubaneswar	Soumya Ranjan Pattnaik	Indian National Congress	6,35,298	78,419	12.3	52.6
10	Aska	Biju Patnaik	Janata Dal	5,59,142	81,094	14.5	49.9
11	Berhampur	P V Narasimha Rao	Indian National Congress	5,58,038	1,68,540	30.2	53.2
12	KoraputST	Giridhari Gamang	Indian National Congress	5,43,960	1,37,653	25.3	53.5
13	NowrangpurWIDEST	Khagapati Pradhani	Indian National Congress	5,75,215	2,03,804	35.4	58.0
14	Kalahandi	Bhakta Charan Das	Samata Party	5,84,472	53,033	9.1	60.6
15	Phulbani	Mrutyunjya Nayak	Indian National Congress	5,92,938	33,658	5.7	56.5
16	BolangirSC	Sarat Pattanayak	Indian National Congress	5,87,130	11,702	2.0	60.4
17	Sambalpur	Krupasindhu Bhoi	Indian National Congress	6,61,476	84,507	12.8	59.6
18	Deogarh	Sriballav Panigrahi	Indian National Congress	5,80,176	47,382	8.2	53.7
19	Dhenkanal	Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo	Indian National Congress	5,74,824	86,094	15.0	54.7
20	Sundargarh	Frida Topno	Indian National Congress	6,19,621	13,073	2.1	56.4
21	KeonjharST	Madhaba Sardar	Indian National Congress	6,27,576	1,25,910	20.1	62.2

Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 2,03,804 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1996 · Odisha · 21 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database