Katwa #40GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Zahedi Mahboob

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

1,38,707 14.4 pp

votes

over Swapan Debnath (WBTC)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors11,56,542

Votes polled9,65,238

Turnout83.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.88 L50.8% of electorate

Female electors5.69 L49.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 967females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Zahedi Mahboob	CPIM	4,70,543	48.70%
2	Swapan Debnath	WBTC	3,31,836	34.40%
3	Chowdhury Siddiqullah	INC	1,35,672	14.10%
4	Kartick Pal	CPIML	7,890	0.80%
5	Gopinath Mandi	BSP	3,715	0.40%
6	Lutphar Rahaman	JMM	1,569	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 14,013, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 951,225 · NOTA n/a · published 965,238 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998