Constituency
415. Tripura West
Community mirrorTripura · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-TRIPURA-WEST
CPM 47.5%won by 2.6%INC 44.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.8% to 2.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.2% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
9,04,781
Turnout
81.0%
Valid votes
7,32,808
Margin
18,876
2.58%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SAMAR CHOUDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,47,97047.5%
- 2RADHIKA RANJAN GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC3,29,09444.9%
- 3HEMENDU SANKAR ROY CHOUDHURYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP50,3916.9%
- 4DEBENDRA DEBBARMAIndependent · IND2,2850.3%
- 5BHUBAN BIJOY MAJUMDERAMB · AMB1,8730.3%
- 6SUBRATA BHOWMIKRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD1,1950.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −9.3%
- CPM share
- 50.7% → 47.5%
- INC share
- 38.9% → 44.9%
- Turnout
- 79.5% → 81.0%