Election
Constituency

47. Silchar

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Assam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-SILCHAR

BJP 37.0%won by 3.2%INC 33.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 3.2%.

  • BJP vote shareBJP went from 30.5% to 37.0% of the vote here (+6.6%).
  • 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
8,26,607
Turnout
75.3%
Valid votes
6,22,823
Margin
19,940
3.20%

Candidates

8 contested · winner BJP
  1. 1KABINDRA PURKAYASTHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,30,74737.0%
  2. 2SANTOSH MOHAN DEVIndian National Congress · INC2,10,80733.8%
  3. 3NOORUL HUDACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,72,99927.8%
  4. 4DEBASISH CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND2,6130.4%
  5. 5N.DILIP SINGHIndependent · IND2,1980.4%
  6. 6KHITINDRA SARKARIndependent · IND1,6520.3%
  7. 7RABINDRA CHANDRA NATHIndependent · IND1,0650.2%
  8. 8HICKZUR ROHMANIndependent · IND7420.1%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
BJPflipped
BJP–INC swing
+15.4%
BJP share
30.5% → 37.0%
INC share
42.7% → 33.8%
Turnout
74.0% → 75.3%
46. Karimganj48. Autonomous District
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