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Burdwan #39GEN
Won
Balai Ray
CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Margin
2,62,714 26.7 pp
votes
over Ritesh Kumar Dutta (INC)
The contest
Electors11,44,191
Votes polled9,83,515
Turnout86.0%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.92 L51.7% of electorate
Female electors5.53 L48.3% of electorate
Sex ratio
934females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Balai Ray | CPIM | 5,78,279 | 58.80% | |
| 2 | Ritesh Kumar Dutta | INC | 3,15,565 | 32.10% | |
| 3 | Satyendra Narayan Ray | BJP | 54,917 | 5.60% | |
| 4 | Rabilal Hansda | JMM | 10,015 | 1.00% | |
| 5 | Kaji Manowar Hossain | IND | 2,884 | 0.30% | |
| 6 | Bipul Dhali | IND | 1,827 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Shib Ram Mazumdar | IND | 1,035 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | Muralidhar Tiwary | IND | 589 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 18,404, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 965,111 · NOTA n/a · published 983,515 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-12