Tamluk #30GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Jayanta Bhattacharya

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

7,910 0.8 pp

votes

over Seth Lakshman Chandra (CPIM)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors10,45,585

Votes polled9,38,889

Turnout89.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.44 L52.0% of electorate

Female electors5.01 L48.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 922females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Jayanta Bhattacharya	INC	4,50,473	48.00%
2	Seth Lakshman Chandra	CPIM	4,42,563	47.10%
3	Saswati Bag	BJP	19,475	2.10%
4	Ashutosh Samanta	IND	10,330	1.10%
5	Ananta Kumar Das	IND	1,029	0.10%
6	Muktinath Bag	IND	976	0.10%
7	Shishir Kumar Panda	IND	669	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,374, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 925,515 · NOTA n/a · published 938,889 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996