Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Silchar #2GEN
Won
Kabindra Purkayastha
BJP Bharatiya Janta PartyMargin
19,940 3.1 pp
votes
over Santosh Mohan Dev (INC)
The contest
Electors8,26,607
Votes polled6,50,377
Turnout78.7%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors4.17 L50.4% of electorate
Female electors4.1 L49.6% of electorate
Sex ratio
984females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kabindra Purkayastha | BJP | 2,30,747 | 35.50% | |
| 2 | Santosh Mohan Dev | INC | 2,10,807 | 32.40% | |
| 3 | Noorul Huda | CPIM | 1,72,999 | 26.60% | |
| 4 | Debasish Chakraborty | IND | 2,613 | 0.40% | |
| 5 | N.Dilip Singh | IND | 2,198 | 0.30% | |
| 6 | Khitindra Sarkar | IND | 1,652 | 0.30% | |
| 7 | Rabindra Chandra Nath | IND | 1,065 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Hickzur Rohman | IND | 742 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 27,554, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 622,823 · NOTA n/a · published 650,377 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998
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- 2026-09-13