Bolpur #41SC

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Somnath Chatterjee

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

2,53,646 31.6 pp

votes

over Sunil Das (INC)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors9,77,226

Votes polled8,02,298

Turnout82.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.94 L50.6% of electorate

Female electors4.83 L49.4% of electorate

Sex ratio 977females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Somnath Chatterjee	CPIM	4,71,549	58.80%
2	Sunil Das	INC	2,17,903	27.20%
3	Tara Prosanna Sinha	BJP	76,548	9.50%
4	Modaswar Hossain	IND	8,670	1.10%
5	Md. Sadakas	IND	1,987	0.20%
6	Maharaj Mistry	IND	1,482	0.20%
7	Abu Taher Mirza	IND	669	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 23,490, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 778,808 · NOTA n/a · published 802,298 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996