Calcutta North East #22GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Ajit Kumar Panja

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

64,985 9.8 pp

votes

over Dipen Ghosh (CPIM)

The contest

12 candidate rows

Electors9,07,284

Votes polled6,60,413

Turnout72.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.35 L59.0% of electorate

Female electors3.72 L41.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 696females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

12 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Ajit Kumar Panja	INC	3,35,855	50.90%
2	Dipen Ghosh	CPIM	2,70,870	41.00%
3	Subhas Maitra	BJP	33,246	5.00%
4	Tapan Kumar Sarkar	IND	2,094	0.30%
5	Hari Narayan Ray	IND	998	0.20%
6	Tiwari Salil Kumar	AIICT	616	0.10%
7	Udai Pratap Singh	IND	611	0.10%
8	Subhas Dhar	IND	541	0.10%
9	Radheshyam Yadav	IND	429	0.10%
10	Jayanta Bhowmick	IND	292	0.00%
11	Agarwal Mohanlal	IND	278	0.00%
12	Achinta Jana	IND	235	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 14,348, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 646,065 · NOTA n/a · published 660,413 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996