BargarhAssembly by-election result, 1998
Ananda Acharya (BJD) won Bargarh in the 1998 assembly by-election with 48.0% of the vote, beating Sureswar Satpathy (INC) by 7,363 votes.
Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1974 election. In 1971, seat no. 127 was Champua. Seat boundaries were redrawn after 2004. From 2009, seat no. 127 is Chhatrapur. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.
Winner
A clear win with a 8.5% margin.
Seat history
All Candidates
5 candidates| # | Candidate | Party | Votes · %Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ananda Acharya | 41,66748.0% | |
| 2 | Sureswar Satpathy | 34,30439.5% | |
| 3 | Jadumani Padhan IND | IND | 7,0958.2% |
| 4 | Trupti Manjari Pradhan | 1,9972.3% | |
| 5 | Braja Kalet | 1,7872.1% |
Results are complete; affidavit details aren't available for this seat yet.
A clear win, a two-to-three-way race.
How safe is this seat?
winning margin, share of votes
How many parties were really in the race?
BJD, INC and an independent took 96% of the votes.
Parties in the race 2.54 Effective number of parties — counts each party by its share of the vote.
How did the vote split?
This seat number was reused from 2009. The district data on file describe the seat as contested from 2009, so they are not shown for earlier elections.
Ask the state
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Who has won Bargarh, 1974–2004
- 1974NABIN KUMAR PRADHAN (UTC), margin 5.1%
- 1977NABIN KUMAR PADHAN (JNP), margin 28.0%
- 1980JADUMANI PADHAN (INC(I)), margin 30.4%
- 1985JADUMMANI PRADHAN (INC), margin 15.0%
- 1990PRASANNA ACHARYA (JD), margin 31.4%
- 1995PRASANNA ACHARYA (JD), margin 7.6%
- 2000ANANDA ACHARYA (BJD), margin 33.7%
- 2004ANANDA ACHARYA (BJD), margin 3.2%