Calcutta South #23GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1989

Won

Biplab Dasgupta

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

25,156 3.4 pp

votes

over Bholanath Sen (INC)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors10,13,580

Votes polled7,40,076

Turnout73.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.86 L57.8% of electorate

Female electors4.28 L42.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 730females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Biplab Dasgupta	CPIM	3,63,674	49.10%
2	Bholanath Sen	INC	3,38,518	45.70%
3	Jnanendra Banerjee	BJP	18,418	2.50%
4	Banerjee Sankar Som	IND	2,213	0.30%
5	Sourendra Nath Mitra	IND	1,459	0.20%
6	Arun Ghosh	IND	1,065	0.10%
7	Utpal Roy	IND	996	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,733, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 726,343 · NOTA n/a · published 740,076 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989