Winner, Votes & Party Details
West Bengal Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Asansol Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1998 Results: Bikash Chowdhury of CPM won with 3,55,382 votes, defeating Ajit Kumar Ghaatak (Moloy Ghaatak) of WBTC, who received 3,29,233 votes. Bikash Chowdhury won by a margin of 26,149 votes, equivalent to 3.02% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 8,64,840.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
CPM
3,55,382
41.09%
WBTC
3,29,233
38.07%
1,10,618
12.79%
43,643
5.05%
IND
9,345
1.08%
8,386
0.97%
SJP(R)
7,106
0.82%
IND
1,127
0.13%