Tamluk #30GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Lakshman Chandra Seth

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

87,952 9.3 pp

votes

over Nirmalendu Bhattacherjee (WBTC)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors10,88,343

Votes polled9,42,965

Turnout86.6%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.56 L51.1% of electorate

Female electors5.32 L48.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 957females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Lakshman Chandra Seth	CPIM	4,77,516	50.60%
2	Nirmalendu Bhattacherjee	WBTC	3,89,564	41.30%
3	Jayanta Bhattacharya	INC	56,538	6.00%
4	Asutosh Samanta	IND	7,542	0.80%
5	Ananta Kumar Paul	ABP	837	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,968, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 931,997 · NOTA n/a · published 942,965 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998