Asansol #38SC

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1999

Won

Bikash Chowdhury

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

37,864 4.6 pp

votes

over Ajit Ghatak (Moloy Ghatak) (AITC)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors12,65,480

Votes polled8,29,147

Turnout65.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors6.99 L55.3% of electorate

Female electors5.66 L44.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 810females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Bikash Chowdhury	CPIM	3,77,265	45.50%
2	Ajit Ghatak (Moloy Ghatak)	AITC	3,39,401	40.90%
3	Manik Upadhyay	INC	89,261	10.80%
4	Manik Bouri	BSP	5,222	0.60%
5	Jitendra Mandal	AB	2,354	0.30%
6	Pradip Kumar Banerjee	IND	970	0.10%
7	Dilip Paswan	IND	819	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,855, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 815,292 · NOTA n/a · published 829,147 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1999