Bankura #35GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Acharia Basudeb

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

2,28,987 29.5 pp

votes

over Gouri Sankar Dey (INC)

The contest

12 candidate rows

Electors9,94,144

Votes polled7,74,916

Turnout78.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.09 L51.2% of electorate

Female electors4.85 L48.8% of electorate

Sex ratio 952females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

12 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Acharia Basudeb	CPIM	4,20,402	54.30%
2	Gouri Sankar Dey	INC	1,91,415	24.70%
3	Bilam Murmu	JMM	59,372	7.70%
4	Gunamoy Chattopadhyay	BJP	40,213	5.20%
5	Bhaskar Bhadra	IND	19,191	2.50%
6	Asim Goswami	IND	5,803	0.70%
7	Budhan Ram	IND	4,458	0.60%
8	Kalyan Mukherjee	SS	2,668	0.30%
9	Kisku Nandalal	JMMM	2,039	0.30%
10	Achintasagar Mahato	IND	783	0.10%
11	Ramlal Jadav	IND	634	0.10%
12	Mukhopadhyay Saktipada	IND	525	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 27,413, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 747,503 · NOTA n/a · published 774,916 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996