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Elections 98

State: Orissa
Constituency: Jagatsinghpur
Total Votes Polled: 759243
Winner: INC Ranjib Biswal 337492
Runner Up: BJD Trilochan Kanungo 317563
Margin: 19929 (6%)


Elections 96

State: Orissa
Constituency: Jagatsinghpur
Total Votes Polled: 800715
Winner: INC Ranjib Biswal 365157
Runner Up: JD Nityananda Samntaray 317879
Margin: 47278 (5.96%)


Rabi Ray was elected from here as a socialist in 1967; the next time he contested from here, in 1980 and 1984, he was defeated by the Congress's Lakshman Mallick. Loknath Choudhary won this seat for the CPI in 1989 and 1991, but in 1996 Ranjib Biswal took it back for the Congress. Choudhary came fourth, winning just 5.64 % of the vote, when in the previous election he had secured 49.1 % of the vote.

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