Birbhum #42GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Gadadhar Saha

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

40,663 9.2 pp

votes

over Badal Chandra Bagdi (INCI)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors6,57,619

Votes polled4,41,811

Turnout67.2%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.28 L49.9% of electorate

Female electors3.3 L50.1% of electorate

Sex ratio 1,005females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Gadadhar Saha	CPIM	2,23,756	50.60%
2	Badal Chandra Bagdi	INCI	1,83,093	41.40%
3	Baidya Nath Mal	SUCI	15,189	3.40%
4	Golak Pati Mandal	JPS	4,632	1.00%
5	Kanai Saha	JP	2,979	0.70%
6	Ranjit Mal	IND	1,404	0.30%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 10,758, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 431,053 · NOTA n/a · published 441,811 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980