Winner, Votes & Party Details
West Bengal Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Burdwan Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1996 Results: Balai Ray of CPM won with 5,78,279 votes, defeating Ritesh Kumar Dutta of INC, who received 3,15,565 votes. Balai Ray won by a margin of 2,62,714 votes, equivalent to 27.22% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 9,65,111.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
CPM
5,78,279
59.92%
3,15,565
32.70%
54,917
5.69%
10,015
1.04%
IND
2,884
0.30%
IND
1,827
0.19%
IND
1,035
0.11%
IND
589
0.06%