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Katwa #40GEN
Won
Saifuddin Chaudhury
CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Margin
1,09,109 13.4 pp
votes
over Nurul Islam (INC)
The contest
Electors9,69,983
Votes polled8,11,642
Turnout83.7%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.06 L52.1% of electorate
Female electors4.64 L47.9% of electorate
Sex ratio
918females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saifuddin Chaudhury | CPIM | 4,19,042 | 51.60% | |
| 2 | Nurul Islam | INC | 3,09,933 | 38.20% | |
| 3 | Shanti Roy | BJP | 54,194 | 6.70% | |
| 4 | Baskoy Gopenath | IND | 9,568 | 1.20% | |
| 5 | Mahadeb Dalal | JPJ | 2,993 | 0.40% | |
| 6 | Kashinath Munshi | BSP | 1,507 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Gopinath Mandi | IND | 1,199 | 0.10% | |
| 8 | Rajnath Kurmi | DP | 1,101 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,105, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 799,537 · NOTA n/a · published 811,642 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
- Retrieved
- 2026-09-12