Elections 98

State:	Orissa
Constituency:	Dhenkanal
Total Votes Polled:	593670
Winner: BJP	Tathagata Satapathy	299156
Runner Up: INC	Kamakshya Prasad Singhdeo	266645
Margin: 32511 (11%)

Elections 96

State:	Orissa
Constituency:	Dhenkanal
Total Votes Polled:	574824
Winner: INC	Kamakhya Prasad Singh Deo	269966
Runner Up: JD	Adwait Prasad Singh	183872
Margin: 86094 (15.20%)

Congress leader K P Singh Deo's constituency, which he won after defeating the JD by 86,000 votes. It has been a seesaw battle between the Congress and the non-Congress parties, with the INC doing marginally better.