Winner, Votes & Party Details
West Bengal Lok Sabha (Parliament)
Malda Lok Sabha Constituency General Election 1998 Results: Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury of INC won with 3,53,117 votes, defeating Jiban Maitra of CPM, who received 3,04,035 votes. Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury won by a margin of 49,082 votes, equivalent to 5.90% of the total votes polled. Total votes polled were 8,32,469.
Full candidate-wise results and vote share details are given below.
3,53,117
42.42%
CPM
3,04,035
36.52%
1,69,260
20.33%
4,224
0.51%
IND
919
0.11%
IND
914
0.11%