Alipurduars #2ST

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Joachim Baxla

RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party

Margin

1,95,599 23.6 pp

votes

over Dhirendra Narjinarai (BJP)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors10,23,567

Votes polled8,27,362

Turnout80.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.31 L51.8% of electorate

Female electors4.93 L48.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 929females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Joachim Baxla	RSP	4,15,006	50.20%
2	Dhirendra Narjinarai	BJP	2,19,407	26.50%
3	Bulu Ram Prodhan	INC	1,62,168	19.60%
4	Fabianus Tirkey	SJP	6,699	0.80%
5	Samarendra Ekka(PINTU)	IND	2,967	0.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 21,115, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 806,247 · NOTA n/a · published 827,362 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998