Malda #7GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1980

Won

Abdul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Chawdhury

INCI Indian National Congress (I)

Margin

12,759 2.5 pp

votes

over Dinesh Chandra Joarder (CPIM)

The contest

2 candidate rows

Electors6,66,219

Votes polled5,03,253

Turnout75.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors3.4 L51.0% of electorate

Female electors3.26 L49.0% of electorate

Sex ratio 961females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

2 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Abdul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Chawdhury	INCI	2,51,952	50.10%
2	Dinesh Chandra Joarder	CPIM	2,39,193	47.50%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 12,108, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 491,145 · NOTA n/a · published 503,253 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1980