Winner, Votes & Party Details
West Bengal Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Howrah Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1998 Results: Dr Bikram Sarkar of WBTC won with 4,37,224 votes, defeating Swadesh Chakraborty of CPM, who received 4,30,689 votes. Dr Bikram Sarkar won by a margin of 6,535 votes, equivalent to 0.65% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 10,12,502.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
WBTC
4,37,224
43.18%
CPM
4,30,689
42.54%
1,34,787
13.31%
IND
1,794
0.18%
IND
1,339
0.13%
IND
1,263
0.12%
IND
1,178
0.12%
IND
1,152
0.11%
IND
1,123
0.11%
IND
699
0.07%
IND
514
0.05%
IND
447
0.04%
IND
293
0.03%