Constituency
502. Cooch Behar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-COOCH-BEHAR
FBL 43.8%won by 13.6%FBS 30.2%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.5% to 13.6%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to FBS (FBS).
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.1% to 82.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,97,193
Turnout
82.5%
Valid votes
9,05,078
Margin
1,23,166
13.61%
Candidates
5 contested · winner FBL- 1AMAR ROYPRADHANFBL · FBL3,96,14043.8%
- 2GOBINDA ROYFBS · FBS2,72,97430.2%
- 3PRASENJIT BARMANWBTC · WBTC2,18,09324.1%
- 4PAPIYA BARMANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP13,4801.5%
- 5KARNESWAR BARMANAMB · AMB4,3910.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–FBS swing
- −13.1%
- FBL share
- 42.2% → 43.8%
- FBS share
- 15.6% → 30.2%
- Turnout
- 87.6% → 82.5%