Vishnupur #36GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Sandhya Bauri

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

1,73,241 20.1 pp

votes

over Purnima Lohar (WBTC)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors10,64,074

Votes polled8,62,530

Turnout81.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.34 L50.2% of electorate

Female electors5.3 L49.8% of electorate

Sex ratio 994females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Sandhya Bauri	CPIM	4,79,727	55.60%
2	Purnima Lohar	WBTC	3,06,486	35.50%
3	Ajit Saha	JPN	31,723	3.70%
4	Banshi Badan Dule	JMM	25,074	2.90%
5	Kamal Duley	IND	1,796	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 17,724, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 844,806 · NOTA n/a · published 862,530 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998