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Dum Dum #20SC
Won
Tapan Sikdar
BJP Bharatiya Janta PartyMargin
1,37,405 10.9 pp
votes
over Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee (CPIM)
The contest
Electors15,59,854
Votes polled12,62,384
Turnout80.9%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors8.35 L53.5% of electorate
Female electors7.25 L46.5% of electorate
Sex ratio
868females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tapan Sikdar | BJP | 6,31,383 | 50.00% | |
| 2 | Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee | CPIM | 4,93,978 | 39.10% | |
| 3 | Pradyut Guha | INC | 1,11,078 | 8.80% | |
| 4 | Jaihind Ram | BSP | 3,524 | 0.30% | |
| 5 | Aloke Das | IND | 2,951 | 0.20% | |
| 6 | Gobinda Dey | IND | 1,164 | 0.10% | |
| 7 | Milonkanti Choudhuri | RPI | 763 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | Prabir Ghosal | IND | 355 | 0.00% | |
| 9 | Tarun Srivastava | IND | 285 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 16,903, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 1,245,481 · NOTA n/a · published 1,262,384 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998
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- 2026-09-12