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514. Barasat

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998

IN-BARASAT

WBTC 47.1%won by 6.3%FBL 40.8%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: FBL (FBL) lost it to WBTC (WBTC), which now leads by 6.3%.

  • WBTC vote shareWBTC went from 0.0% to 47.1% of the vote here (+47.1%).
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
12,73,400
Turnout
83.2%
Valid votes
10,59,184
Margin
66,707
6.30%

Candidates

6 contested · winner WBTC
  1. 1DR RANJIT KUMAR PANJAWBTC · WBTC4,99,18147.1%
  2. 2CHITRA GHOSHFBL · FBL4,32,47440.8%
  3. 3QUAZI ABDUL GAFFARIndian National Congress · INC1,13,11510.7%
  4. 4MANOJ HOWLADERBahujan Samaj Party · BSP11,2021.1%
  5. 5CHAPALA BHAKTA (BHARATI)TRMRPPI · TRMRPPI2,5030.2%
  6. 6SUPROKASH MUKHOPADHYAYIndependent · IND7090.1%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
FBL
Winner now
WBTCflipped
WBTC–FBL swing
+52.5%
WBTC share
0.0% → 47.1%
FBL share
46.2% → 40.8%
Turnout
84.4% → 83.2%
513. Nabadwip515. Basirhat
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