Jadavpur #18GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Somnath Chatterjee

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

1,38,635 38.9 pp

votes

over Mohammad Elias (CPI)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors6,24,264

Votes polled3,56,636

Turnout57.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.84 L61.6% of electorate

Female electors2.4 L38.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 624females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Somnath Chatterjee	CPIM	2,36,085	66.20%
2	Mohammad Elias	CPI	97,450	27.30%
3	Biren Roy	IND	5,852	1.60%
4	Nihar Banerjee	IND	5,360	1.50%
5	Dhuba Chakraborty	IND	1,605	0.50%
6	Nitya Nanda Singh	IND	792	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,492, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 347,144 · NOTA n/a · published 356,636 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977