Calcutta North East #22GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Ajit Kumar Panja

WBTC West Bengal Trinamool Congress

Margin

64,872 9.7 pp

votes

over Prasanta Chatterjee (CPIM)

The contest

11 candidate rows

Electors9,10,738

Votes polled6,68,942

Turnout73.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.36 L58.9% of electorate

Female electors3.74 L41.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 698females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

11 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Ajit Kumar Panja	WBTC	3,10,361	46.40%
2	Prasanta Chatterjee	CPIM	2,45,489	36.70%
3	Sadhan Pande	INC	94,024	14.10%
4	Ajit Das	IND	1,986	0.30%
5	Sharad Kumar Singh	IND	1,725	0.30%
6	Feroz Ahmed	IND	1,368	0.20%
7	Swapan Sarkar	IND	1,278	0.20%
8	Brij Bhushan Sharma	IND	925	0.10%
9	Anjali Rakshit	IND	769	0.10%
10	Tarapada Halder	IND	572	0.10%
11	Md Shahid Iqbal	IND	435	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,010, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 658,932 · NOTA n/a · published 668,942 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998