Constituency
512. Krishnagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-KRISHNAGAR
CPM 42.0%won by 4.6%BJP 37.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 4.4% to 4.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.9% — 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 79.5% between them, down from 87.5% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,68,080
Turnout
83.0%
Valid votes
8,86,285
Margin
40,672
4.59%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1AJOY MUKHOPADHYAYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,72,49042.0%
- 2SATYABRATA MOOKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,31,81837.4%
- 3JYOTIRMOY BHATTACHARYAIndian National Congress · INC1,56,80017.7%
- 4BIMAN BISWASCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL11,6081.3%
- 5SK KHODA BAKSHIndependent · IND7,0620.8%
- 6KUMUD BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,6240.4%
- 7DEBDAS HALDERAMB · AMB1,8680.2%
- 8GOPEN LAHIRYRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD1,0150.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- −33.3%
- CPM share
- 45.9% → 42.0%
- BJP share
- 8.0% → 37.4%
- Turnout
- 83.1% → 83.0%