Constituency
521. Dum Dum
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-DUM-DUM
BJP 50.7%won by 11.0%CPM 39.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 11.0%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 8.8% to 50.7% of the vote here (+41.9%).
- 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
15,59,854
Turnout
79.8%
Valid votes
12,45,481
Margin
1,37,405
11.03%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1TAPAN SIKDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,31,38350.7%
- 2NIRMAL KANTI CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,93,97839.7%
- 3PRADYUT GUHAIndian National Congress · INC1,11,0788.9%
- 4JAIHIND RAMBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,5240.3%
- 5ALOKE DASIndependent · IND2,9510.2%
- 6GOBINDA DEYIndependent · IND1,1640.1%
- 7MILONKANTI CHOUDHURIRPI · RPI7630.1%
- 8PRABIR GHOSALIndependent · IND3550.0%
- 9TARUN SRIVASTAVAIndependent · IND2850.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–CPM swing
- +49.6%
- BJP share
- 8.8% → 50.7%
- CPM share
- 47.4% → 39.7%
- Turnout
- 79.3% → 79.8%