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Durgapur #37SC
Won
Purna Chandra Malik
CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Margin
2,62,624 35.8 pp
votes
over Gopal Mondal (INC)
The contest
Electors10,20,338
Votes polled7,32,788
Turnout71.8%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.43 L53.2% of electorate
Female electors4.77 L46.8% of electorate
Sex ratio
878females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Purna Chandra Malik | CPIM | 4,68,710 | 64.00% | |
| 2 | Gopal Mondal | INC | 2,06,086 | 28.10% | |
| 3 | Byom Sankar Ruidas | IND | 12,771 | 1.70% | |
| 4 | Nikhil Kumar Mondal | JMM | 9,247 | 1.30% | |
| 5 | Paresh Nath Dhibar | AB | 5,467 | 0.70% | |
| 6 | Bhaktadas Mandal | BSP | 5,354 | 0.70% | |
| 7 | Nirmal Mandal | IND | 4,462 | 0.60% | |
| 8 | Kaka Joginder Singh Urf. Dharti Pakad | IND | 1,480 | 0.20% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 19,211, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 713,577 · NOTA n/a · published 732,788 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989
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- 2026-09-13