Constituency
510. Murshidabad
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-MURSHIDABAD
CPM 50.0%won by 20.5%INC 29.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.8% to 20.5%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.4% between them, down from 89.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.1% to 80.4%.
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Electorate
11,54,100
Turnout
80.4%
Valid votes
9,27,598
Margin
1,90,466
20.53%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1MOINUL HASSANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,63,40150.0%
- 2ANARUL HOSSAIN KHANIndian National Congress · INC2,72,93529.4%
- 3SAGIR HOSSAINWBTC · WBTC1,49,06116.1%
- 4ABDUS SALAMIndependent · IND19,0542.1%
- 5SAIMUDDIN SARKARMUL · MUL16,2541.8%
- 6MONDAL KADERIndependent · IND5,5420.6%
- 7MONDAL NRIPENDRANATHIndependent · IND1,3510.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +16.7%
- CPM share
- 46.5% → 50.0%
- INC share
- 42.7% → 29.4%
- Turnout
- 85.5% → 80.4%