Durgapur #37SC

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Sunil Khan

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

1,81,713 19.8 pp

votes

over Chittaranjan Pramanik (INC)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors11,39,493

Votes polled9,17,970

Turnout80.6%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.03 L52.9% of electorate

Female electors5.37 L47.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 890females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Sunil Khan	CPIM	4,96,250	54.10%
2	Chittaranjan Pramanik	INC	3,14,537	34.30%
3	Byomsankar Ruidas	BJP	73,599	8.00%
4	Paresh Nath Dhibar	AB	4,390	0.50%
5	Bhaktadas Mondal	IND	2,466	0.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 26,728, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 891,242 · NOTA n/a · published 917,970 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996