Diamond Harbour #17GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Samik Lahiri

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

60,956 6.8 pp

votes

over Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar (WBTC)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors11,22,823

Votes polled8,96,052

Turnout79.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.02 L53.6% of electorate

Female electors5.21 L46.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 865females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Samik Lahiri	CPIM	4,05,048	45.20%
2	Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar	WBTC	3,44,092	38.40%
3	Dr Maya Ghose	INC	1,24,335	13.90%
4	Sahadat Hossain Jamader	IND	3,210	0.40%
5	Bechu Mandal	IND	2,229	0.20%
6	Ranendra Kumar Gupta	IND	1,550	0.20%
7	Sambhu Mondal	IND	640	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 14,948, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 881,104 · NOTA n/a · published 896,052 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998