Balurghat #6GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Ranen Barman

RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party

Margin

1,72,175 19.3 pp

votes

over Nani Gopal Roy (WBTC)

The contest

7 candidate rows

Electors10,88,350

Votes polled8,92,146

Turnout82.0%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.61 L51.5% of electorate

Female electors5.28 L48.5% of electorate

Sex ratio 942females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

7 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Ranen Barman	RSP	4,28,710	48.10%
2	Nani Gopal Roy	WBTC	2,56,535	28.80%
3	Mohini Mohan Roy	INC	1,82,846	20.50%
4	Purna Chandra Sarkar	BSP	3,888	0.40%
5	Dhirendra Nath Singh	IND	2,753	0.30%
6	Malin Chandra Barman	IND	1,251	0.10%
7	Niren Mondal	IND	662	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 15,501, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 876,645 · NOTA n/a · published 892,146 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998