Winner, Votes & Party Details
West Bengal Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Tamluk Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1996 Results: Jayanta Bhattacharya of INC won with 4,50,473 votes, defeating Seth Lakshman Chandra of CPM, who received 4,42,563 votes. Jayanta Bhattacharya won by a margin of 7,910 votes, equivalent to 0.85% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 9,25,515.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
4,50,473
48.67%
CPM
4,42,563
47.82%
19,475
2.10%
IND
10,330
1.12%
IND
1,029
0.11%
IND
976
0.11%
IND
669
0.07%