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53. Kailasahar

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Tripura Assembly Election, 1998

TR-KAILASAHAR

INC 49.1%won by 4.1%CPM 45.0%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 4.1%.

  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
25,163
Margin
1,027
4.08%

Candidates

5 contested · winner INC
  1. 1BIRAJIT SINHAIndian National Congress · INC12,36049.1%
  2. 2TAPAN CHAKRABARTICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,33345.0%
  3. 3BIDHAN DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,4425.7%
  4. 4RAJ KUMAR MALAKARIndependent · IND140.1%
  5. 5SUSHEN MALAKARIndependent · IND140.1%

Since 1993

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
INCflipped
INC–CPM swing
+6.1%
INC share
47.0% → 49.1%
CPM share
49.0% → 45.0%
Turnout
— → —
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