Contai #31GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 2004

Won

Prasanta Pradhan

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

59,190 6.4 pp

votes

over Nitish Sengupta (AITC)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors10,81,102

Votes polled9,21,634

Turnout85.3%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.52 L51.0% of electorate

Female electors5.29 L49.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 959females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Prasanta Pradhan	CPIM	4,64,743	50.40%
2	Nitish Sengupta	AITC	4,05,553	44.00%
3	Kshitindra Mohan Sahoo	INC	26,010	2.80%
4	Jiban Das	IND	11,707	1.30%
5	Adhar Chandra Nahal	IND	9,676	1.00%
6	Asalata Majumdar	BSP	9,085	1.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is -5,140, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 926,774 · NOTA n/a · published 921,634 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 2004