Elections 98

State:	Orissa
Constituency:	Nowrangpur (ST)
Total Votes Polled:	586689
Winner: INC	Khagapati Pradhani	280444
Runner Up: BJP	Parsuram Majhi	206509
Margin: 73935 (26%)

Elections 96

State:	Orissa
Constituency:	Nowrangpur (ST)
Total Votes Polled:	575215
Winner: INC	Khagapati Pradhani	320103
Runner Up: JD	Jadav Majhi	116299
Margin: 203804 (36.96%)

K Pradhani has won as a Congress MP from this constituency a record eight consecutive times. And his party, after 1952, has never lost from this constituency. The eighth time he was elected, Pradhani defeated his JD rival by more than 200,000 votes.