Constituency
46. Karimganj
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-KARIMGANJ
INC 39.7%won by 1.4%BJP 38.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 1.4%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 28.2% to 39.7% of the vote here (+11.5%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 78.0% of the vote between them, up from 61.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,42,749
Turnout
77.1%
Valid votes
7,27,079
Margin
10,468
1.44%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1NEPAL CHANDRA DASIndian National Congress · INC2,88,64339.7%
- 2SWAPAN KUMAR DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,78,17538.3%
- 3GAUTAM DASAsom Gana Parishad · AGP1,43,37819.7%
- 4SANAT KUMAR BISWASSamajwadi Party · SP12,4871.7%
- 5RADHA KANTA TANTYIndependent · IND2,1420.3%
- 6HARIPADA SUKLABAIDYAIndependent · IND1,1800.2%
- 7LILAMAY DASIndependent · IND1,0740.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +6.3%
- INC share
- 28.2% → 39.7%
- BJP share
- 33.1% → 38.3%
- Turnout
- 77.3% → 77.1%