Malda #7GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1989

Won

Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

29,897 4.1 pp

votes

over Sunil Sen (CPIM)

The contest

5 candidate rows

Electors9,00,406

Votes polled7,36,351

Turnout81.8%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors4.58 L50.8% of electorate

Female electors4.43 L49.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 967females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

5 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury	INC	3,49,138	47.40%
2	Sunil Sen	CPIM	3,19,241	43.40%
3	Benay Bhusan Sarkar	BJP	45,303	6.20%
4	Md. Saidul Islam	ML	7,660	1.00%
5	Samsuddin Biswas	IND	3,290	0.40%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 11,719, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 724,632 · NOTA n/a · published 736,351 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1989