Dum Dum #20SC

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Asoke Krishna Dutt

BLD Bharatiya Lok Dal

Margin

21,780 5.0 pp

votes

over Indrajit Gupta (CPI)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors6,98,781

Votes polled4,31,362

Turnout61.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.91 L55.9% of electorate

Female electors3.08 L44.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 789females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Asoke Krishna Dutt	BLD	2,15,766	50.00%
2	Indrajit Gupta	CPI	1,93,986	45.00%
3	Baidyanath Ghosh	IND	12,254	2.80%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,356, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 422,006 · NOTA n/a · published 431,362 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977