Winner, Votes & Party Details
Assam Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Silchar Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1998 Results: Kabindra Purkayastha of BJP won with 2,30,747 votes, defeating Santosh Mohan Dev of INC, who received 2,10,807 votes. Kabindra Purkayastha won by a margin of 19,940 votes, equivalent to 3.20% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 6,22,823.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
2,30,747
37.05%
2,10,807
33.85%
CPM
1,72,999
27.78%
IND
2,613
0.42%
IND
2,198
0.35%
IND
1,652
0.27%
IND
1,065
0.17%
IND
742
0.12%