Silchar #2GEN

ASSAM · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Sontosh Mohan Deb

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

68,141 11.5 pp

votes

over Kabindra Purkayastha (BJP)

The contest

11 candidate rows

Electors7,53,298

Votes polled5,92,252

Turnout78.6%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4 L53.1% of electorate

Female electors3.53 L46.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 883females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

11 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Sontosh Mohan Deb	INC	2,37,804	40.20%
2	Kabindra Purkayastha	BJP	1,69,663	28.60%
3	Noorul Huda	CPIM	1,20,703	20.40%
4	Debasish Chakraborty	IND	8,798	1.50%
5	Chunilal Goala	IND	4,798	0.80%
6	Nurul Huda	IND	4,312	0.70%
7	Lal Mohan Dushad	AIICT	3,566	0.60%
8	Arikan Nessa	IND	3,354	0.60%
9	Bijoy Ranjan Paul	IND	2,775	0.50%
10	Uma Purkayastha	IND	829	0.10%
11	Nityananda Das	AB	505	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 35,145, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 557,107 · NOTA n/a · published 592,252 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996