274. Jamalpur

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.5% to 19.8%.

• New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 39.1% — it did not contest here in 1996.
• Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.0% of the vote between them, up from 91.8% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.