Constituency
518. Diamond Harbour
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-DIAMOND-HARBOUR
CPM 46.0%won by 6.9%WBTC 39.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.6% to 6.9%.
- New challengerWBTC (WBTC) finished second with 39.1% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.0% between them, down from 92.1% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,22,823
Turnout
78.5%
Valid votes
8,81,104
Margin
60,956
6.92%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SAMIK LAHIRICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,05,04846.0%
- 2KAKOLI GHOSH DASTIDARWBTC · WBTC3,44,09239.1%
- 3DR MAYA GHOSEIndian National Congress · INC1,24,33514.1%
- 4SAHADAT HOSSAIN JAMADERIndependent · IND3,2100.4%
- 5BECHU MANDALIndependent · IND2,2290.3%
- 6RANENDRA KUMAR GUPTAIndependent · IND1,5500.2%
- 7SAMBHU MONDALIndependent · IND6400.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–WBTC swing
- −40.4%
- CPM share
- 47.4% → 46.0%
- WBTC share
- 0.0% → 39.1%
- Turnout
- 78.7% → 78.5%