Malda (Lok Sabha constituency)
By-election 2006

Malda (Lok Sabha constituency)

Section Title: By-election 2006
Table Section Text: None

Party	Candidate	Votes	%	±

INC	Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury	437,161	50.67

CPI(M)	Sailen Sarkar	353,770	41.00

BJP	Biswapriya Roy Chowdhury	45,737	5.30

Independent	Atul Chandra Mandal	13,875	1.61

Independent	Ataur Rahman	12,328	1.42

Majority	84,391

Turnout	8,62,888	77.5%

INC hold	Swing

Sentence(s)

In the by-election, Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury defeated Sailen Sarkar of CPI(M).

final_sentence: In the by-election, Abu Hasem Khan Choudhury defeated Sailen Sarkar of CPI(M).