Constituency
526. Uluberia
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-ULUBERIA
CPM 47.5%won by 13.3%WBTC 34.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.3% to 13.3%.
- New challengerWBTC (WBTC) finished second with 34.2% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 81.7% between them, down from 94.8% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.7% to 78.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,83,621
Turnout
78.5%
Valid votes
8,50,440
Margin
1,13,530
13.35%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1HANNAN MOLLAHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,04,00047.5%
- 2SARADINDU BISWASWBTC · WBTC2,90,47034.2%
- 3KARAR SAROJ RANJANIndian National Congress · INC1,45,08117.1%
- 4ABUL QUASEMIndependent · IND5,0940.6%
- 5SUJIT MONDALIndependent · IND2,3180.3%
- 6BADAN CHANDRA MONDALIndependent · IND1,1970.1%
- 7BHRIGURAM DOLUIIndependent · IND1,0780.1%
- 8SHIBNATH DOLUIIndependent · IND8970.1%
- 9DILIP KUMAR DASIndependent · IND3050.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–WBTC swing
- −35.7%
- CPM share
- 49.1% → 47.5%
- WBTC share
- 0.0% → 34.2%
- Turnout
- 81.2% → 78.5%