Dum Dum #20SC

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Niren Ghosh

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

1,65,672 26.9 pp

votes

over Barid Baran Das (INCI)

The contest

9 candidate rows

Electors9,02,611

Votes polled6,16,483

Turnout68.3%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.28 L58.5% of electorate

Female electors3.74 L41.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 708females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

9 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Niren Ghosh	CPIM	3,68,214	59.70%
2	Barid Baran Das	INCI	2,02,542	32.90%
3	Kalyan Brata Roy	JP	19,400	3.10%
4	Salil Biswas	INCU	4,692	0.80%
5	Ramprit Gond	RPI	3,081	0.50%
6	Aniruddha Bera	IND	1,890	0.30%
7	Sahabir Prasad Shaw	IND	1,404	0.20%
8	Swapan Dutta	IND	927	0.20%
9	Karuna Nidhan Roy	IND	767	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,566, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 602,917 · NOTA n/a · published 616,483 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980