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Diamond Harbour #17GEN
Won
Samik Lahiri
CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Margin
22,526 2.5 pp
votes
over Amjad Ali Sardar (INC)
The contest
Electors11,05,494
Votes polled8,89,735
Turnout80.5%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors6.01 L54.4% of electorate
Female electors5.04 L45.6% of electorate
Sex ratio
838females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Samik Lahiri | CPIM | 4,11,844 | 46.30% | |
| 2 | Amjad Ali Sardar | INC | 3,89,318 | 43.80% | |
| 3 | Dulal Chaudhuri | BJP | 55,518 | 6.20% | |
| 4 | Ruhulamine Mollick | ML | 4,365 | 0.50% | |
| 5 | Sanjib Chatterjee | SS | 3,381 | 0.40% | |
| 6 | Jahar Biswas | IND | 2,139 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Nemai Naskar | IND | 2,010 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Nathuni Roy | IND | 936 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 20,224, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 869,511 · NOTA n/a · published 889,735 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
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- 2026-09-12