Dum Dum #20SC

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1989

Won

Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

1,17,004 11.4 pp

votes

over Asutosh Law (INC)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors12,97,758

Votes polled10,27,270

Turnout79.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors7.05 L54.3% of electorate

Female electors5.93 L45.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 841females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee	CPIM	5,56,139	54.10%
2	Asutosh Law	INC	4,39,135	42.70%
3	Chitta Ranjan Biswas	IND	10,766	1.00%
4	Shikary Dhobey	DP	2,383	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 18,847, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 1,008,423 · NOTA n/a · published 1,027,270 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989