Elections 98

State:	Orissa
Constituency:	Berhampur
Total Votes Polled:	564119
Winner: INC	Smt. Jayanti Patnaik	271044
Runner Up: BJP	Gopinath Gajapati Narayandeo	235804
Margin: 35240 (13%)

Elections 96

State:	Orissa
Constituency:	Berhampur
Total Votes Polled:	558038
Winner: INC	P V Narasimha Rao	340555
Runner Up: JD	V Sugnana Kumari Deo	172015
Margin: 168540 (30.97%)

The CPI won in 1952, after which the constituency stayed with the Congress. In 1996 it had a VVIP candidate contesting on the Congress ticket, former prime minister P V Narasimha Rao, who defeated his nearest JD rival by nearly 170,000 votes.