Malda #7GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1996

Won

Abul Barkat Ataul G K Choudhury

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

89,822 10.3 pp

votes

over Sailen Sarkar (CPIM)

The contest

13 candidate rows

Electors10,13,006

Votes polled8,76,253

Turnout86.5%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.15 L50.8% of electorate

Female electors4.98 L49.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 968females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

13 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Abul Barkat Ataul G K Choudhury	INC	4,17,427	47.60%
2	Sailen Sarkar	CPIM	3,27,605	37.40%
3	Binay Sarkar	BJP	89,255	10.20%
4	Basu Sant Kumar	IND	6,657	0.80%
5	Agu Nasar Khan Choudhury	IND	3,317	0.40%
6	Aminul Islam	IND	2,728	0.30%
7	Abdus Samad Choudhury	IND	2,231	0.30%
8	Md. Nekmuddin	IND	2,024	0.20%
9	Birendra N. Biswas	IND	1,329	0.20%
10	Ali Saber	IND	1,239	0.10%
11	Ainal	IND	797	0.10%
12	Naresh Ch. Rishi	IND	664	0.10%
13	Nirmal Das	IND	391	0.00%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 20,589, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 855,664 · NOTA n/a · published 876,253 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1996