Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Calcutta South #23GEN
Won
Mamata Banerjee
WBTC West Bengal Trinamool CongressMargin
2,24,081 25.5 pp
votes
over Prasanta Sur (CPIM)
The contest
Electors11,78,748
Votes polled8,77,430
Turnout74.4%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors6.52 L55.3% of electorate
Female electors5.27 L44.7% of electorate
Sex ratio
809females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mamata Banerjee | WBTC | 5,03,551 | 57.40% | |
| 2 | Prasanta Sur | CPIM | 2,79,470 | 31.90% | |
| 3 | Sougata Ray | INC | 56,725 | 6.50% | |
| 4 | Partha Sarathi Ghosh | IND | 1,937 | 0.20% | |
| 5 | Salik Ram Shaw | RJD | 1,498 | 0.20% | |
| 6 | G Joseph | IND | 1,497 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Rina Sutradhar | IND | 1,447 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Adrish Bhattacharya | IND | 1,236 | 0.10% | |
| 9 | Addy Samir Kumar | IND | 493 | 0.10% | |
| 10 | Paresh Nath Banerjee | IND | 340 | 0.00% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 29,236, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 848,194 · NOTA n/a · published 877,430 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-12