Seat overview · Winners · All candidates
Katwa #40GEN
Won
Mahaboob Zahedi
CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)Margin
1,06,202 11.1 pp
votes
over Nurul Islam (INC)
The contest
Electors11,14,733
Votes polled9,60,916
Turnout86.2%
NOTA
did not exist
NOTA was introduced in 2013
Male electors5.7 L51.1% of electorate
Female electors5.45 L48.9% of electorate
Sex ratio
956females per 1,000 males
Poll datenot digitised
polling dates are sparse before 2005
Candidates
| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mahaboob Zahedi | CPIM | 4,75,264 | 49.50% | |
| 2 | Nurul Islam | INC | 3,69,062 | 38.40% | |
| 3 | Shiba Prasad Roy | BJP | 77,338 | 8.00% | |
| 4 | Gopenath Baskey | JMM | 9,078 | 0.90% | |
| 5 | Paresh Banerjee | CPIML | 6,277 | 0.70% | |
| 6 | Gopinath Mandi | IND | 1,962 | 0.20% | |
| 7 | Sk. Younush Rahaman | IND | 1,464 | 0.20% | |
| 8 | Brahamdeo Narayan Singh | IND | 1,356 | 0.10% |
Reconciliation
Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 19,115, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.
candidates 941,801 · NOTA n/a · published 960,916 · neither convention holds
Reconciliation failed
Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996
- Publisher
- Election Commission of India
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- 2026-09-13