Arambagh #28GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Anil Basu

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

1,87,300 19.9 pp

votes

over Chunilal Chakraborty (BJP)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors11,16,151

Votes polled9,40,359

Turnout84.3%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.66 L50.7% of electorate

Female electors5.5 L49.3% of electorate

Sex ratio 972females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Anil Basu	CPIM	5,21,507	55.50%
2	Chunilal Chakraborty	BJP	3,34,207	35.50%
3	Provat Kiran Chakrabarti	INC	73,105	7.80%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,540, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 928,819 · NOTA n/a · published 940,359 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998