Winner, Votes & Party Details
West Bengal Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Bolpur Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1996 Results: Somnath Chatterjee of CPM won with 4,71,549 votes, defeating Sunil Das of INC, who received 2,17,903 votes. Somnath Chatterjee won by a margin of 2,53,646 votes, equivalent to 32.57% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 7,78,808.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
CPM
4,71,549
60.55%
2,17,903
27.98%
76,548
9.83%
IND
8,670
1.11%
IND
1,987
0.26%
IND
1,482
0.19%
IND
669
0.09%