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Elections 98

State: Orissa
Constituency: Bhadrak (SC)
Total Votes Polled: 707522
Winner: BJD Arjun Charan Sethi 350322
Runner Up: INC Muralidhar Jena 316744
Margin: 33578 (10%)


Elections 96

State: Orissa
Constituency: Bhadrak (SC)
Total Votes Polled: 722571
Winner: INC Muralidhar Jena 336265
Runner Up: JD Ratha Das 271693
Margin: 64572 (9.03%)


Before 1989 the Congress had lost this seat just once, to the BLD candidate in 1977. In 1989 and 1991 the Janata Dal managed to wrest this constituency from the Congress, which defeated the JD's Ratha Das in 1996. Muralidhar Jena won by 65,000 votes.

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