Constituency
528. Hooghly
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-HOOGHLY
CPM 46.2%won by 0.7%WBTC 45.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 4.2% to 0.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerWBTC (WBTC) finished second with 45.6% — it did not contest here in 1996.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,37,353
Turnout
82.0%
Valid votes
9,32,462
Margin
6,116
0.66%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1RUPCHAND PALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,31,22946.2%
- 2TAPAN DASGUPTAWBTC · WBTC4,25,11345.6%
- 3IPSITA ROYIndian National Congress · INC76,1208.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–WBTC swing
- −48.6%
- CPM share
- 49.3% → 46.2%
- WBTC share
- 0.0% → 45.6%
- Turnout
- 83.7% → 82.0%