Constituency
47. Salema
Community mirrorTripura Assembly Election, 1998
TR-SALEMA
CPM 52.6%won by 12.6%TUJS 40.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.9% to 12.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 9.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerTUJS (TUJS) finished second with 40.0% — it did not contest here in 1993.
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
19,014
Margin
2,392
12.58%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1PRASANTA DEBBARMACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,99652.6%
- 2SACHINDRA DEBBARMATUJS · TUJS7,60440.0%
- 3HAIMANTI DEBBARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,2056.3%
- 4RANITA SANGMAAMB · AMB2091.1%
Since 1993
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–TUJS swing
- −49.3%
- CPM share
- 61.9% → 52.6%
- TUJS share
- 0.0% → 40.0%
- Turnout
- — → —