Constituency
506. Raiganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-RAIGANJ
CPM 39.8%won by 0.7%INC 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 1.3% to 0.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.8% between them, down from 86.3% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,26,310
Turnout
78.3%
Valid votes
8,82,488
Margin
6,281
0.71%
Candidates
12 contested · winner CPM- 1SUBRATA MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,50,89739.8%
- 2PRIYA RANJAN DASMUNSIIndian National Congress · INC3,44,61639.1%
- 3RAHUL SINHA (BISWAJIT)Bharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,60,23918.2%
- 4AJIT KUMAR DASCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL8,4811.0%
- 5ABEDIN DR SHAYESTAIndependent · IND6,5820.7%
- 6GOLAM YAZDANIIndependent · IND3,8810.4%
- 7SUBHAS BALABahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,8120.3%
- 8UDAY DUBEYIndependent · IND1,2180.1%
- 9DR MD. SALIMUDDINSJPR · SJPR1,1670.1%
- 10DEBASISH MITRAIndependent · IND9960.1%
- 11MD ILYAS CHOUDHARYIndependent · IND8340.1%
- 12ADHESWAR PRASAD SINGHAIndependent · IND7650.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −0.5%
- CPM share
- 43.8% → 39.8%
- INC share
- 42.5% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- 78.7% → 78.3%