Back to Odisha 1998 by-elections results
Odisha · Assembly Constituency 134

DeogarhAssembly by-election result, 1998

Subash Chandra Panigrahi (BJP) won Deogarh in the 1998 assembly by-election with 55.3% of the vote, beating Satyanarayan Pani (INC) by 26,504 votes.

Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1974 election. In 1971, seat no. 134 was Kamakhyanagar. Seat boundaries were redrawn after 2004. From 2009, seat no. 134 is Digapahandi. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.

Winner

Subash Chandra Panigrahi
BJP 55.3%INC 27.1%3 others 17.6%
Votes
51,903
55.3% share
Winning margin
26,504
28.3% of votes
Candidates
5

A comfortable win — Subash Chandra Panigrahi won by 28.3%.

Seat history

All Candidates

5 candidates
#CandidatePartyVotes · %
1
Subash Chandra Panigrahi
51,90355.3%
2
Satyanarayan Pani
25,39927.1%
3
Shakuntala Pradhan
7,2577.7%
4
Pramoda Pradhan
6,5597.0%
5
Alekha Chandra Pradhan
IND
IND
2,6782.9%

Results are complete; affidavit details aren't available for this seat yet.

A comfortable margin, a two-to-three-way race.

LOADING SEAT HISTORY…

How safe is this seat?

SEAT
28.3%

winning margin, share of votes

How many parties were really in the race?

SEAT
Two or three

BJP, INC and JD took 90% of the votes.

Parties in the race 2.56

How did the vote split?

SEAT
55.3%won by BJP
BJP 55.3%INC 27.1%JD 7.7%RJD 7.0%Others 2.9%

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

RBI 2024-25

Figures for the state as a whole, not for this seat.

Who has won Deogarh, 1974–2004

  1. 1974TRIBHUBAN DEB (SWA), margin 18.5%
  2. 1977BHANU GANGA TRIBHUBAN DEB (JNP), margin 38.0%
  3. 1980ASWINI KUMAR BEHERA (INC(I)), margin 21.5%
  4. 1985RAJ KISHORE PRADHAN (INC), margin 7.3%
  5. 1990PRADIPTA GANGA DEB (JD), margin 56.2%
  6. 1995PRADIPTA GANG DEB (JD), margin 10.6%
  7. 2000SUBASH CHANDRA PANIGRAHI (BJP), margin 9.4%
  8. 2004NITESH ANGA DEB (INC), margin 11.4%