Constituency
46. Surma
Community mirrorTripura Assembly Election, 1998
TR-SURMA
CPM 51.2%won by 8.3%INC 42.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 17.6% to 8.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
20,192
Margin
1,677
8.31%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SUDHIR DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM10,34451.2%
- 2SURJALAL DASIndian National Congress · INC8,66742.9%
- 3ANADI SARKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,0105.0%
- 4CHITTARANJAN DASAMB · AMB1370.7%
- 5RASURAM MALAKARIndependent · IND340.2%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −9.3%
- CPM share
- 56.6% → 51.2%
- INC share
- 39.0% → 42.9%
- Turnout
- — → —