Constituency
503. Alipurduars
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-ALIPURDUARS
RSP 51.5%won by 24.3%BJP 27.2%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 16.7% to 24.3%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.7% between them, down from 89.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.5% to 78.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,23,567
Turnout
78.8%
Valid votes
8,06,247
Margin
1,95,599
24.26%
Candidates
5 contested · winner RSP- 1JOACHIM BAXLARashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP4,15,00651.5%
- 2DHIRENDRA NARJINARAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,19,40727.2%
- 3BULU RAM PRODHANIndian National Congress · INC1,62,16820.1%
- 4FABIANUS TIRKEYSWJP · SWJP6,6990.8%
- 5SAMARENDRA EKKA(PINTU)Independent · IND2,9670.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–BJP swing
- −20.9%
- RSP share
- 53.1% → 51.5%
- BJP share
- 8.0% → 27.2%
- Turnout
- 82.3% → 78.8%