Constituency
519. Jadavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-JADAVPUR
WBTC 48.9%won by 7.4%CPM 41.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to WBTC (WBTC), which now leads by 7.4%.
- WBTC vote shareWBTC went from 0.0% to 48.9% of the vote here (+48.9%).
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.9% to 76.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,79,055
Turnout
76.3%
Valid votes
10,52,189
Margin
78,201
7.43%
Candidates
8 contested · winner WBTC- 1KRISHNA BOSEWBTC · WBTC5,14,33848.9%
- 2MALINI BHATTACHARYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,36,13741.5%
- 3RAM PYARE RAMIndian National Congress · INC91,4078.7%
- 4SANDHYA MANDALBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,5680.3%
- 5NITAI ROYIndependent · IND2,7530.3%
- 6ABU SIDDIQUE LASKARIndependent · IND1,4580.1%
- 7MD ASLAMIndependent · IND1,3700.1%
- 8BISWANATH PAULIndependent · IND1,1580.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- WBTCflipped
- WBTC–CPM swing
- +53.6%
- WBTC share
- 0.0% → 48.9%
- CPM share
- 46.2% → 41.5%
- Turnout
- 80.2% → 76.3%