Constituency
50. Kokrajhar
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-KOKRAJHAR
IND 25.6%won by 5.5%URMCA 20.1%
What changed here
DerivedIndependent held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.1% to 5.5%.
- New challengerURMCA (URMCA) finished second with 20.1% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 13.4% to 64.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,69,792
Turnout
64.6%
Valid votes
7,55,166
Margin
41,432
5.49%
Candidates
8 contested · winner IND- 1SANSUMA KHUNGGUR BWISWMUTHIARYIndependent · IND1,92,97525.6%
- 2THEODOR KISKU RAPAZURMCA · URMCA1,51,54320.1%
- 3BINOD GAYARYIndependent · IND1,40,45718.6%
- 4CHARAN NARZARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,15,87515.3%
- 5PREMSING BRAHMAIndian National Congress · INC89,47011.8%
- 6LOUIS ISLARYAsom Gana Parishad · AGP47,8536.3%
- 7THANESWAR BOROPTCA · PTCA12,9521.7%
- 8JAMINI MOHAN BASUMATARYIndependent · IND4,0410.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- IND
- Winner now
- IND
- IND–URMCA swing
- −18.9%
- IND share
- 24.4% → 25.6%
- URMCA share
- 0.0% → 20.1%
- Turnout
- 77.9% → 64.6%