Hooghly #27GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Rupchand Pal

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

38,497 4.1 pp

votes

over Gouri Sankar Banerjee (INC)

The contest

9 candidate rows

Electors10,95,875

Votes polled9,34,941

Turnout85.3%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.59 L51.0% of electorate

Female electors5.37 L49.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 961females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

9 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Rupchand Pal	CPIM	4,52,353	48.40%
2	Gouri Sankar Banerjee	INC	4,13,856	44.30%
3	Biswanath Ghosh	BJP	37,812	4.00%
4	Baidyanath Tudu	JMM	6,646	0.70%
5	Mantu Debnath	SS	2,389	0.30%
6	Mrityunjoy Mallick	IND	1,464	0.20%
7	Gora Chand Auddy	IND	1,260	0.10%
8	Ram Bali Singh	IND	1,126	0.10%
9	Goutam Das	IND	554	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 17,481, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 917,460 · NOTA n/a · published 934,941 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996