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WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Dr Bikram Sarkar

WBTC West Bengal Trinamool Congress

Margin

6,535 0.6 pp

votes

over Swadesh Chakraborty (CPIM)

The contest

13 candidate rows

Electors13,67,313

Votes polled10,27,782

Turnout75.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors7.73 L56.5% of electorate

Female electors5.94 L43.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 768females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

13 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Dr Bikram Sarkar	WBTC	4,37,224	42.50%
2	Swadesh Chakraborty	CPIM	4,30,689	41.90%
3	Ambica Banerjee	INC	1,34,787	13.10%
4	Prof Dr Sushen Mondal	IND	1,794	0.20%
5	Ranjit Chatterjee	IND	1,339	0.10%
6	Md Shafi Alam	IND	1,263	0.10%
7	Aloke Barman	IND	1,178	0.10%
8	Muhammad Yakub	IND	1,152	0.10%
9	Amar Nath Ojha	IND	1,123	0.10%
10	Shrikant Upadhyay	IND	699	0.10%
11	Aloke Banerjee	IND	514	0.10%
12	Biman Chandra Roy	IND	447	0.00%
13	Nandalal Show	IND	293	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 15,280, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 1,012,502 · NOTA n/a · published 1,027,782 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998