Contai #31GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Sudhir Giri

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

24,042 2.9 pp

votes

over Nitish Sengupta (INC)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors9,31,232

Votes polled8,29,074

Turnout89.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.75 L51.0% of electorate

Female electors4.56 L49.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 961females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Sudhir Giri	CPIM	3,97,028	47.90%
2	Nitish Sengupta	INC	3,72,986	45.00%
3	Amalesh Misra	BJP	32,924	4.00%
4	Nikhilesh Nanda	IND	7,317	0.90%
5	Joytirmoy Maity	IND	3,442	0.40%
6	Adhar Nahal	IND	772	0.10%
7	Goutam Pahari	IND	637	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,968, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 815,106 · NOTA n/a · published 829,074 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996