Dum Dum #20SC

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

58,291 4.7 pp

votes

over Ashutosh Laha (INC)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors15,44,506

Votes polled12,52,429

Turnout81.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors8.27 L53.6% of electorate

Female electors7.17 L46.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 867females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee	CPIM	5,80,455	46.30%
2	Ashutosh Laha	INC	5,22,164	41.70%
3	Dibakar Kundu	BJP	1,07,501	8.60%
4	Surendra Nath Biswas	BSP	6,457	0.50%
5	Ashoke Deb Chowdhury	IND	4,858	0.40%
6	Milon Kanti Choudhari	IND	2,218	0.20%
7	Jhoton Roy	IND	1,068	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 27,708, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 1,224,721 · NOTA n/a · published 1,252,429 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996