Katwa #40GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Saifuddin Chwdhury

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

1,21,160 22.1 pp

votes

over Dhirendra Nath Basu (INCI)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors7,13,420

Votes polled5,49,368

Turnout77.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.28 L60.0% of electorate

Female electors2.85 L40.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 666females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Saifuddin Chwdhury	CPIM	3,22,080	58.60%
2	Dhirendra Nath Basu	INCI	2,00,920	36.60%
3	Lakshminarayan Rej	INCU	14,056	2.60%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,312, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 537,056 · NOTA n/a · published 549,368 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980