Jalpaiguri #3SC

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Minati Sen

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

1,74,975 19.7 pp

votes

over Kalyan Chakraborty (WBTC)

The contest

8 candidate rows

Electors10,85,257

Votes polled8,87,722

Turnout81.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.62 L51.8% of electorate

Female electors5.24 L48.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 932females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

8 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Minati Sen	CPIM	4,26,672	48.10%
2	Kalyan Chakraborty	WBTC	2,51,697	28.40%
3	Subhra Patra	INC	1,65,845	18.70%
4	Joygopal Das	IND	6,113	0.70%
5	Sanika Munda	IND	5,477	0.60%
6	Shankar Ganguly	IND	5,310	0.60%
7	Anil Roy	BSP	4,387	0.50%
8	Lalit Barman	IND	3,171	0.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 19,050, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 868,672 · NOTA n/a · published 887,722 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998