Constituency
524. Calcutta South
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-CALCUTTA-SOUTH
WBTC 59.4%won by 26.4%CPM 32.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to WBTC (WBTC), which now leads by 26.4%.
- WBTC vote shareWBTC went from 0.0% to 59.4% of the vote here (+59.4%).
- Safe seatWBTC won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
11,78,748
Turnout
72.0%
Valid votes
8,48,194
Margin
2,24,081
26.42%
Candidates
10 contested · winner WBTC- 1MAMATA BANERJEEWBTC · WBTC5,03,55159.4%
- 2PRASANTA SURCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM2,79,47032.9%
- 3SOUGATA RAYIndian National Congress · INC56,7256.7%
- 4PARTHA SARATHI GHOSHIndependent · IND1,9370.2%
- 5SALIK RAM SHAWRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD1,4980.2%
- 6G JOSEPHIndependent · IND1,4970.2%
- 7RINA SUTRADHARIndependent · IND1,4470.2%
- 8ADRISH BHATTACHARYAIndependent · IND1,2360.1%
- 9ADDY SAMIR KUMARIndependent · IND4930.1%
- 10PARESH NATH BANERJEEIndependent · IND3400.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- WBTCflipped
- WBTC–CPM swing
- +66.6%
- WBTC share
- 0.0% → 59.4%
- CPM share
- 40.1% → 32.9%
- Turnout
- 71.5% → 72.0%