Dum Dum #20SC

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1999

Won

Tapan Sikdar

BJP Bharatiya Janta Party

Margin

1,34,561 11.1 pp

votes

over Anil Bhattacharya (CPIM)

The contest

9 candidate rows

Electors15,98,044

Votes polled12,09,926

Turnout75.7%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors8.51 L53.2% of electorate

Female electors7.47 L46.8% of electorate

Sex ratio 878females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

9 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Tapan Sikdar	BJP	6,14,471	50.80%
2	Anil Bhattacharya	CPIM	4,79,910	39.70%
3	Ramesh Bhattacharjee	INC	85,648	7.10%
4	Bimal Krishna Biswas	BSP	4,848	0.40%
5	Manas Chakraborty	IND	1,862	0.20%
6	Suryya Ray	NCP	1,658	0.10%
7	Prabir Ghosal	IND	956	0.10%
8	Ajit Nandi	IND	945	0.10%
9	Saikat Nayak	IND	816	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 18,812, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 1,191,114 · NOTA n/a · published 1,209,926 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1999