Contai #31GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Giri Sudhir Kumar

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

89,774 18.8 pp

votes

over Pradip Sarkar (INCI)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors6,44,267

Votes polled4,77,134

Turnout74.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.41 L53.0% of electorate

Female electors3.03 L47.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 888females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Giri Sudhir Kumar	CPIM	2,37,002	49.70%
2	Pradip Sarkar	INCI	1,47,228	30.90%
3	Samar Guha	JP	80,111	16.80%
4	Prasanta Kumar Gaunia	IND	3,155	0.70%
5	Atal Kumar Giri	JPS	2,721	0.60%
6	Sasadhar Maity	IND	1,161	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 5,756, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 471,378 · NOTA n/a · published 477,134 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980