Tamluk #30GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Sushil Kumar Dhara

BLD Bharatiya Lok Dal

Margin

1,18,575 28.1 pp

votes

over Satis Chandra Samanta (INC)

The contest

4 candidate rows

Electors6,03,246

Votes polled4,21,330

Turnout69.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.09 L51.3% of electorate

Female electors2.94 L48.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 949females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

4 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Sushil Kumar Dhara	BLD	2,54,049	60.30%
2	Satis Chandra Samanta	INC	1,35,474	32.20%
3	Surendra Nath Gharai	IND	13,950	3.30%
4	Asutosh Samanta	SUCI	8,682	2.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,175, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 412,155 · NOTA n/a · published 421,330 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977