Bolpur #41SC

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Somnath Chatterjee

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

2,51,092 31.3 pp

votes

over Gour Hari Chandra (WBTC)

The contest

3 candidate rows

Electors10,22,735

Votes polled8,03,382

Turnout78.6%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.15 L50.3% of electorate

Female electors5.08 L49.7% of electorate

Sex ratio 987females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

3 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Somnath Chatterjee	CPIM	4,70,645	58.60%
2	Gour Hari Chandra	WBTC	2,19,553	27.30%
3	Chattaraj Suniti	INC	1,00,091	12.50%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,093, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 790,289 · NOTA n/a · published 803,382 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998