Constituency
9. Banamalipur
Community mirrorTripura Assembly Election, 1998
TR-BANAMALIPUR
INC 54.3%won by 17.5%CPI 36.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.2% to 17.5%.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (CPI) finished second with 36.8% — it did not contest here in 1993.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
18,512
Margin
3,232
17.46%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1MADHU SUDHAN SAHAIndian National Congress · INC10,05154.3%
- 2PRASANTA KAPALICommunist Party of India · CPI6,81936.8%
- 3NARAYAN CHANDRA GHOSHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,4407.8%
- 4NIKHIL DEBNATHRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD880.5%
- 5JITENDRA CHANDRA PAULIndependent · IND730.4%
- 6BIMAL KR. CHANDAIndependent · IND410.2%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–CPI swing
- −31.7%
- INC share
- 49.2% → 54.3%
- CPI share
- 0.0% → 36.8%
- Turnout
- — → —