Constituency
505. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-DARJEELING
CPM 44.8%won by 19.5%INC 25.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.9% to 19.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.0% between them, down from 81.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 13.5% to 50.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,38,587
Turnout
50.6%
Valid votes
6,26,969
Margin
1,22,556
19.55%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1ANANDA PATHAKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,80,58944.8%
- 2PRASANTA NANDYIndian National Congress · INC1,58,03325.2%
- 3DAWA NURBULAWBTC · WBTC1,14,68818.3%
- 4R B RAIIndependent · IND51,6818.2%
- 5PARESH RAYIndependent · IND12,6092.0%
- 6SURJIT RASAILYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,7270.6%
- 7L B PARIYARIndependent · IND3,0480.5%
- 8MATIUR RAHMANIndependent · IND2,5940.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +9.6%
- CPM share
- 45.9% → 44.8%
- INC share
- 36.0% → 25.2%
- Turnout
- 64.2% → 50.6%