Elections 98

State:	Orissa
Constituency:	Bhubaneswar
Total Votes Polled:	662966
Winner: BJD	Prasamna Kumar Patasani	378849
Runner Up: INC	Saumya Ranjan Pattanaik	250941
Margin: 127908 (34%)

Elections 96

State:	Orissa
Constituency:	Bhubaneswar
Total Votes Polled:	635298
Winner: INC	Soumya Ranjan Pattnaik	298289
Runner Up: CPM	Sivaji Patnaik	219870
Margin: 78419 (12.47%)

Barring three times when the CPI-M won this seat, Bhubaneswar has remained loyal to the Congress. Sivaji Patnaik first won this seat for the CPI-M in 1977, and lost the next two rounds to Chintamani Panigrahi. He made up in 1989 and 1991, before losing to the Congress's S R Patnaik by nearly 80,000 votes. Panigrahi, who was also in the fray on the Congress-Tiwari ticket, was fourth