Constituency
416. Tripura East
Community mirrorTripura · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-TRIPURA-EAST
CPM 50.3%won by 11.4%INC 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.6% to 11.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.2% of the vote between them, up from 83.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,22,682
Turnout
77.5%
Valid votes
6,37,657
Margin
72,686
11.40%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1BAJU BAN RIYANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,20,76650.3%
- 2DRAO KUMAR REANGIndian National Congress · INC2,48,08038.9%
- 3JISHNU DEV VARMABharatiya Janata Party · BJP61,8409.7%
- 4MADHURI KALAI (RUDRAPAUL)AMB · AMB4,9720.8%
- 5DIJA RAJ TRIPURAIndependent · IND1,9990.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −14.2%
- CPM share
- 54.3% → 50.3%
- INC share
- 28.8% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- 76.5% → 77.5%