Bankura #35GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Acharia Basudeb

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

1,11,583 14.6 pp

votes

over Sukumar Banerjee (BJP)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors10,28,834

Votes polled7,66,640

Turnout74.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.24 L51.0% of electorate

Female electors5.05 L49.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 963females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Acharia Basudeb	CPIM	3,69,695	48.20%
2	Sukumar Banerjee	BJP	2,58,112	33.70%
3	Kashinath Misra	INC	74,145	9.70%
4	Baghambar Mahato	JMM	35,676	4.70%
5	Bhaskar Bhadra	IND	7,749	1.00%
6	Laxmi Kanta Mahata	AB	2,623	0.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 18,640, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 748,000 · NOTA n/a · published 766,640 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998