Purulia #34GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Bir Singh Mahat0

AIFB All India Forward Bloc

Margin

1,57,137 21.0 pp

votes

over Nepal Mahata (INC)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors9,94,968

Votes polled7,47,609

Turnout75.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.98 L50.1% of electorate

Female electors4.97 L49.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 998females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Bir Singh Mahat0	AIFB	3,76,313	50.30%
2	Nepal Mahata	INC	2,19,176	29.30%
3	Arun Gupta	BJP	97,996	13.10%
4	Ajit Prasad Mahata	JMM	35,629	4.80%
5	Dhiren Chandra Mahato	IND	2,169	0.30%
6	Nepal Chandra Bauri	IND	1,620	0.20%
7	Prafulla Kumar Mahato	IND	1,156	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,550, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 734,059 · NOTA n/a · published 747,609 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998