Constituency
511. Berhampore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BERHAMPORE
RSP 44.5%won by 14.2%BJP 30.2%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.8% to 14.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.7% between them, down from 92.7% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.1% to 73.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,90,096
Turnout
73.0%
Valid votes
8,68,246
Margin
1,23,369
14.21%
Candidates
5 contested · winner RSP- 1PROMOTHES MUKHERJEERashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP3,85,97944.5%
- 2COLONEL (RETD) SABYASACHI BAGCHIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,62,61030.2%
- 3PRODIP MAZUMDERIndian National Congress · INC1,88,98521.8%
- 4ABDUS SUKURMUL · MUL29,8883.4%
- 5KANAN KUMAR SAHAIndependent · IND7840.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–BJP swing
- −28.5%
- RSP share
- 48.8% → 44.5%
- BJP share
- 6.1% → 30.2%
- Turnout
- 79.0% → 73.0%