Winner, Votes & Party Details
West Bengal Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Dum Dum Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1998 Results: Tapan Sikdar of BJP won with 6,31,383 votes, defeating Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee of CPM, who received 4,93,978 votes. Tapan Sikdar won by a margin of 1,37,405 votes, equivalent to 11.03% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 12,45,481.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
6,31,383
50.69%
CPM
4,93,978
39.66%
1,11,078
8.92%
3,524
0.28%
IND
2,951
0.24%
IND
1,164
0.09%
RPI
763
0.06%
IND
355
0.03%
IND
285
0.02%