Barasat #13SC

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Dr Ranjit Kumar Panja

WBTC West Bengal Trinamool Congress

Margin

66,707 6.2 pp

votes

over Chitra Ghosh (AIFB)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors12,73,400

Votes polled10,70,946

Turnout84.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.89 L54.1% of electorate

Female electors5.84 L45.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 848females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Dr Ranjit Kumar Panja	WBTC	4,99,181	46.60%
2	Chitra Ghosh	AIFB	4,32,474	40.40%
3	Quazi Abdul Gaffar	INC	1,13,115	10.60%
4	Manoj Howlader	BSP	11,202	1.00%
5	Chapala Bhakta (BHARATI)	RMRPP	2,503	0.20%
6	Suprokash Mukhopadhyay	IND	709	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,762, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 1,059,184 · NOTA n/a · published 1,070,946 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998