Katwa #40GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1977

Won

Dhirendra Nath Basu

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

11,880 3.2 pp

votes

over Syed Mansur Habibullah (CPIM)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors5,75,293

Votes polled3,69,898

Turnout64.3%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3 L52.1% of electorate

Female electors2.75 L47.9% of electorate

Sex ratio 919females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Dhirendra Nath Basu	INC	1,79,927	48.60%
2	Syed Mansur Habibullah	CPIM	1,68,047	45.40%
3	Krishnadas Chatopadhyay	IND	12,326	3.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 9,598, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 360,300 · NOTA n/a · published 369,898 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1977