Constituency
523. Calcutta North East
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-CALCUTTA-NORTH-EAST
WBTC 47.1%won by 9.8%CPM 37.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to WBTC (WBTC), which now leads by 9.8%.
- WBTC vote shareWBTC went from 0.0% to 47.1% of the vote here (+47.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.4% between them, down from 93.9% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,10,738
Turnout
72.3%
Valid votes
6,58,932
Margin
64,872
9.85%
Candidates
11 contested · winner WBTC- 1AJIT KUMAR PANJAWBTC · WBTC3,10,36147.1%
- 2PRASANTA CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,45,48937.3%
- 3SADHAN PANDEIndian National Congress · INC94,02414.3%
- 4AJIT DASIndependent · IND1,9860.3%
- 5SHARAD KUMAR SINGHIndependent · IND1,7250.3%
- 6FEROZ AHMEDIndependent · IND1,3680.2%
- 7SWAPAN SARKARIndependent · IND1,2780.2%
- 8BRIJ BHUSHAN SHARMAIndependent · IND9250.1%
- 9ANJALI RAKSHITIndependent · IND7690.1%
- 10TARAPADA HALDERIndependent · IND5720.1%
- 11MD SHAHID IQBALIndependent · IND4350.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- WBTCflipped
- WBTC–CPM swing
- +51.8%
- WBTC share
- 0.0% → 47.1%
- CPM share
- 41.9% → 37.3%
- Turnout
- 71.2% → 72.3%