1998 Indian general election in Orissa

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1998 Indian general election in Orissa were held on 16, 22 and 28 February 1998 to elect the members of the twelfth Lok Sabha. The elections were held three years ahead of schedule after the government led by Inder Kumar Gujral collapsed when the Indian National Congress (INC) withdrew its support in November 1997.[1]

The result was another hung parliament, with no party or alliance able to muster a majority. However, Atal Bihari Vajpayee of the Bharatiya Janata Party was able to form a coalition government led by the National Democratic Alliance with the outside support of the Telugu Desam Party. He was sworn in as Prime Minister with support from 272 of 543 MPs. However, his government collapsed on 17 April 1999 when the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam withdrew its support, after Vajpayee refused to meet the demands of its leader J. Jayalalithaa, namely halting the corruption cases against her and the sacking of the Tamil Nadu government led by her bete-noire M. Karunanidhi.[2] This led to fresh elections in 1999.[3]

The elections were the second consecutive general elections in which the party that received the most votes did not win the most seats.

In Orissa, the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) was formed in 1998 after breaking away from the Janata Dal. In its debut in the 1998 general election, the BJD allied with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and won nine seats. Following this victory, Naveen Patnaik was appointed Union Minister for Mines. Together, the BJP–BJD alliance secured 16 out of the 21 Lok Sabha seats in the state, while the Janata Dal suffered a major defeat, with its vote share reduced to just 4 percent.

Seat sharing of parties

Party/Alliance Flag Electoral symbol Leader Seats contested
Template:Party color cell Indian National Congress File:Indian National Congress Flag.svg File:Hand INC.svg Giridhar Gamang 21
rowspan=2 Template:Party color cell National Democratic Alliance Template:Party color cell Biju Janata Dal File:Biju Janata Dal flag.svg File:Indian Election Symbol Conch.svg Naveen Patnaik 12
Template:Party color cell Bharatiya Janata Party File:BJP flag.svg File:Lotus flower symbol.svg Atal Bihari Vajpayee 9

List of Candidates

Constituency colspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color" |NDA colspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color" |INC colspan="3" style="background:Template:Party color" |JD+
No. Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate
1 Mayurbhanj (ST) Template:Party name with colour Salkhan Murmu Template:Party name with colour Susila Tiria Template:Party name with colour Chaitanya Prasad Majhi
2 Balasore Template:Party name with colour M. A. Kharabela Swain Template:Party name with colour Kartik Mohapatra Template:Party name with colour Ananta Majhi
3 Bhadrak (SC) Template:Party name with colour Arjun Charan Sethi Template:Party name with colour Muralidhar Jena Template:Party name with colour Bairagi Jena
4 Jajpur (SC) Template:Party name with colour Jagannath Mallik Template:Party name with colour Rama Chandra Mallick Template:Party name with colour Mohan Jena
5 Kendrapara Template:Party name with colour Prabhat Kumar Samantaray Template:Party name with colour Archana Nayak Template:Party name with colour Srikanta Kumar Jena
6 Cuttack Template:Party name with colour Bhartruhari Mahatab Template:Party name with colour Syed Mustafiz Ahmed Template:Party name with colour Ranendra Pratap Swain
7 Jagatsinghpur Template:Party name with colour Trilochan Kanungo Template:Party name with colour Ranjib Biswal Template:Party name with colour Abani Boral
8 Puri Template:Party name with colour Braja Kishore Tripathy Template:Party name with colour Pinaki Mishra Template:Party name with colour Durga Charan Routray
9 Bhubaneswar Template:Party name with colour Prasanna Kumar Patasani Template:Party name with colour Saumya Ranjan Pattanaik Template:Party name with colour Shivaji Pattanaik
10 Aska Template:Party name with colour Naveen Patnaik Template:Party name with colour Chandra Sekhar Sahoo Template:Party name with colour Nityananda Pradhan
11 Berhampur Template:Party name with colour Gopinath Gajapati Narayandeo Template:Party name with colour Jayanti Patnaik Template:Party name with colour Ali Kishore Pattanaik
12 Koraput (ST) Template:Party name with colour Jayaram Pangi Template:Party name with colour Giridhar Gamang Template:Party name with colour Sankar Bidika
13 Nowrangpur (ST) Template:Party name with colour Parsuram Majhi Template:Party name with colour Khagapati Pradhani Template:Party name with colour Bhagaban Majhi
14 Kalahandi Template:Party name with colour Bikram Keshari Deo Template:Party name with colour Bhakta Charan Das Template:Party name with colour Duryodhan Majhi
15 Phulbani (SC) Template:Party name with colour Padmanava Behera Template:Party name with colour Mrutyunjaya Nayak Template:Party name with colour Lecturer Bullion
16 Bolangir Template:Party name with colour Sangeeta Kumari Singhdeo Template:Party name with colour Sarat Pattanayak Template:Party name with colour Pradeep Kumar Maharana
17 Sambalpur Template:Party name with colour Prasanna Acharya Template:Party name with colour Krupasindhu Bhoi Template:Party name with colour Bijaya Singh Bariha
18 Deogarh Template:Party name with colour Debendra Pradhan Template:Party name with colour Shriballav Panigrahi Template:Party name with colour Rabi Narayan Pani
19 Dhenkanal Template:Party name with colour Tathagata Satapathy Template:Party name with colour Kamakshya Prasad Singhdeo Template:Party name with colour Sarat Kumar Mishra
20 Sundargarh (ST) Template:Party name with colour Jual Oram Template:Party name with colour Sunil Kumar Singhdeo Did not contest
21 Keonjhar (ST) Template:Party name with colour Upendranath Nayak Template:Party name with colour Madhaba Sardar Template:Party name with colour Saharai Oram

Election Voter Turnout

# Constituency Name Turnout
1 Mayurbhanj (ST) 65.25%
2 Balasore 66.62%
3 Bhadrak (SC) 60.80%
4 Jajpur (SC) 54.98%
5 Kendrapara 59.88%
6 Cuttack 56.95%
7 Jagatsinghpur 64.15%
8 Puri 61.80%
9 Bhubaneswar 53.20%
10 Aska 51.02%
11 Berhampur 50.76%
12 Koraput (ST) 47.34%
13 Nowrangpur (ST) 55.89%
14 Kalahandi 61.14%
15 Phulbani (SC) 56.22%
16 Bolangir 58.18%
17 Sambalpur 59.79%
18 Deogarh 59.80%
19 Dhenkanal 54.43%
20 Sundargarh (ST) 58.68%
21 Keonjhar (ST) 62.42%

Results by Party/Alliance

Alliance/ Party Popular vote Seats
Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/−
rowspan="3" Template:Party color cell NDA Template:Party color cell BJD 36,69,825 27.50 Template:New 12 9 Template:New
Template:Party color cell BJP 28,28,709 21.19 Template:Increase 7.77 9 7 Template:Increase 7
Total 64,98,534 48.69 Template:Steady 21 16 Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell INC 54,77,410 41.04 Template:Decrease 3.86 21 5 Template:Decrease 11
rowspan="4" Template:Party color cell JD+ Template:Party color cell JD 6,57,790 4.93 Template:Decrease 25.12 16 0 Template:Decrease 4
Template:Party color cell CPI 1,32,089 0.99 Template:Increase 0.65 2 0 Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell CPI(M) 54,217 0.41 Template:Decrease 1.28 2 0 Template:Steady
Total 8,44,096 6.33 Template:Steady 20 0 Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell JMM 2,83,943 2.13 Template:Increase 0.58 2 0
Template:Party color cell Others 1,87,133 1.40 Template:Steady 50 0 Template:Steady
Template:Party color cell IND 55,156 0.41 Template:Decrease 5.27 21 0 Template:Steady
Total 1,33,46,272 100% - 135 21 -

Source: [4][5]

Detailed Results

Constituency Winner Runner-up Margin
Candidate Party Votes % Candidate Party Votes % Votes %
1 Mayurbhanj (ST) Salkhan Murmu Template:Party color cell BJP 2,49,255 42.09 Susila Tiria Template:Party color cell INC 1,74,936 29.54 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|74,319 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|12.55
2 Balasore M. A. Kharabela Swain Template:Party color cell BJP 4,21,068 53.17 Kartik Mohapatra Template:Party color cell INC 3,37,066 42.56 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|84,002 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|10.61
3 Bhadrak (SC) Arjun Charan Sethi Template:Party color cell BJD 3,50,322 49.99 Muralidhar Jena Template:Party color cell INC 3,16,744 45.20 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|33,578 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|4.79
4 Jajpur (SC) Rama Chandra Mallick Template:Party color cell INC 2,83,455 45.72 Jagannath Mallik Template:Party color cell BJD 1,91,591 30.90 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|91,864 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|14.82
5 Kendrapara Prabhat Kumar Samantaray Template:Party color cell BJD 2,82,736 43.27 Archana Nayak Template:Party color cell INC 2,74,911 42.07 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|7,825 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1.20
6 Cuttack Bhartruhari Mahatab Template:Party color cell BJD 3,50,314 52.89 Syed Mustafiz Ahmed Template:Party color cell INC 2,37,620 35.87 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1,12,694 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|17.02
7 Jagatsinghpur Ranjib Biswal Template:Party color cell INC 3,37,492 44.84 Trilochan Kanungo Template:Party color cell BJD 3,17,563 42.19 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|19,929 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|2.65
8 Puri Braja Kishore Tripathy Template:Party color cell BJD 3,58,978 51.51 Pinaki Mishra Template:Party color cell INC 3,06,433 43.97 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|52,545 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|7.54
9 Bhubaneswar Prasamna Kumar Patasani Template:Party color cell BJD 3,78,849 57.61 Saumya Ranjan Pattanaik Template:Party color cell INC 2,50,941 38.16 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1,27,908 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|19.45
10 Aska Naveen Patnaik Template:Party color cell BJD 3,10,751 53.89 Chandra Sekhar Sahoo Template:Party color cell INC 2,24,540 38.94 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|86,211 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|14.95
11 Berhampur Jayanti Patnaik Template:Party color cell INC 2,71,044 49.05 Gopinath Gajapati Narayandeo Template:Party color cell BJP 2,35,804 42.68 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|35,240 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|6.37
12 Koraput (ST) Giridhar Gamang Template:Party color cell INC 2,67,425 53.92 Jayaram Pangi Template:Party color cell BJD 1,85,909 37.48 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|81,516 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|16.44
13 Nowrangpur (ST) Khagapati Pradhani Template:Party color cell INC 2,80,444 50.06 Parsuram Majhi Template:Party color cell BJP 2,06,509 36.86 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|73,935 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|13.20
14 Kalahandi Bikram Keshari Deo Template:Party color cell BJP 3,44,703 56.55 Bhakta Charan Das Template:Party color cell INC 2,24,789 36.88 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1,19,914 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|19.67
15 Phulbani (SC) Padmanava Behera Template:Party color cell BJD 3,32,786 54.95 Mrutyunjaya Nayak Template:Party color cell INC 2,41,714 39.91 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|91,072 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|15.04
16 Bolangir Sangeeta Kumari Singhdeo Template:Party color cell BJP 3,60,575 61.75 Sarat Pattanayak Template:Party color cell INC 2,02,044 34.60 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1,58,531 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|27.15
17 Sambalpur Prasanna Acharya Template:Party color cell BJD 3,10,870 45.77 Krupasindhu Bhoi Template:Party color cell INC 2,86,102 42.12 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|24,768 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|3.65
18 Deogarh Debendra Pradhan Template:Party color cell BJP 3,46,820 52.34 Shriballav Panigrahi Template:Party color cell INC 2,41,393 36.43 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1,05,427 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|15.91
19 Dhenkanal Tathagata Satapathy Template:Party color cell BJD 2,99,156 51.02 Kamakshya Prasad Singhdeo Template:Party color cell INC 2,66,645 45.48 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|32,511 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|5.54
20 Sundargarh (ST) Jual Oram Template:Party color cell BJP 3,16,069 47.71 Sunil Kumar Singhdeo Template:Party color cell INC 1,90,041 28.69 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|1,26,028 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|19.02
21 Keonjhar (ST) Upendranath Nayak Template:Party color cell BJP 3,47,906 54.09 Madhaba Sardar Template:Party color cell INC 2,61,631 40.68 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|86,275 style="background:Template:Party color ; color:white;"|13.41

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from Orissa

# Name Constituency Designation Department From To Party
1 Naveen Patnaik[6] Aska Cabinet Minister Steel 19 March
1998 		13 Oct
1999 		Template:Party name with color
Mines
2 Dilip Ray[7] Rajya Sabha
(Odisha) 		MoS(I/C) Coal 20 March
1998
MoS Parliamentary Affairs 22 May
1998

Notes

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References

  1. ↑ Government Falls, Indian Premier Quits; Coalition Splits Amid Gandhi Assassination Debate. The Washington Post(29 November 1997). Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  2. ↑ BJP's one-vote defeat in 1999 was narrowest in history. The Times of India. Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  3. ↑ The 1999 No-Trust Motion That Former PM Vajpayee Lost by One Vote. The Quint(20 July 2018). Retrieved 22 March 2019.
  4. ↑ https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/4124-general-election-1998-vol-i-ii/
  5. ↑ https://www.indiavotes.com/lok-sabha/1998/orissa/12/6#:~:text=IndiaVotes%20PC:%20Orissa%201998,NDA%20UPA%20THIRD%20FRONT%20OTHERS
  6. ↑ Shri Naveen Patnaik Assumes Charge as Union Minister for Steel & Mines. Press Information Bureau, Government of India (Archived).
  7. ↑ Ex-NDA Minister Dilip Ray Gets Three Years Imprisonment in Coal Scam Case. LiveLaw. Retrieved 2020-10-26.

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