Birbhum #42GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Dome Ram Chandra

CPIM Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)

Margin

1,61,512 20.4 pp

votes

over Dr Madan Lal Choudhury (BJP)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors10,28,114

Votes polled7,89,909

Turnout76.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.19 L50.5% of electorate

Female electors5.09 L49.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 980females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Dome Ram Chandra	CPIM	3,80,314	48.10%
2	Dr Madan Lal Choudhury	BJP	2,18,802	27.70%
3	Asit Kr Mal	INC	1,64,555	20.80%
4	Braja Mohan Das	IND	5,632	0.70%
5	Nani Gopal Das	IND	4,146	0.50%
6	Sadhan Saha	IND	1,672	0.20%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 14,788, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 775,121 · NOTA n/a · published 789,909 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998