Malda #7GEN

WEST BENGAL · Lok Sabha · 1998

Won

Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury

INC Indian National Congress

Margin

49,082 5.8 pp

votes

over Jiban Maitra (CPIM)

The contest

6 candidate rows

Electors10,30,986

Votes polled8,46,069

Turnout82.1%

NOTA did not exist NOTA was introduced in 2013

Male electors5.24 L50.8% of electorate

Female electors5.07 L49.2% of electorate

Sex ratio 968females per 1,000 males

Poll datenot digitised polling dates are sparse before 2005

6 rows · by votes

#	Candidate	Party	Votes	Share
1	Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury	INC	3,53,117	41.70%
2	Jiban Maitra	CPIM	3,04,035	35.90%
3	Muzaffar Khan	BJP	1,69,260	20.00%
4	Mahendra Nath Hasda	BSP	4,224	0.50%
5	Mazizur Rahaman	IND	919	0.10%
6	Akbar Hossain	IND	914	0.10%

Reconciliation failed

Candidate votes do not account for the published total. Closest residual is 13,600, whether NOTA is counted inside the total or outside it.

candidates 832,469 · NOTA n/a · published 846,069 · neither convention holds

Reconciliation failed Constituency-wise results, Lok Sabha 1998