Hooghly #27GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Rupchand Pal

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

6,116 0.6 pp

votes

over Tapan Dasgupta (WBTC)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors11,37,353

Votes polled9,43,670

Turnout83.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.88 L51.7% of electorate

Female electors5.49 L48.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 934females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Rupchand Pal	CPIM	4,31,229	45.70%
2	Tapan Dasgupta	WBTC	4,25,113	45.00%
3	Ipsita Roy	INC	76,120	8.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,208, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 932,462 · NOTA n/a · published 943,670 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998