Winner, Votes & Party Details
West Bengal Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Dum Dum Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1996 Results: Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee of CPM won with 5,80,455 votes, defeating Ashutosh Laha of INC, who received 5,22,164 votes. Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee won by a margin of 58,291 votes, equivalent to 4.76% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 12,24,721.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
CPM
5,80,455
47.39%
5,22,164
42.64%
1,07,501
8.78%
6,457
0.53%
IND
4,858
0.40%
IND
2,218
0.18%
IND
1,068
0.09%