Constituency
529. Arambagh
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-ARAMBAGH
CPM 56.1%won by 20.2%BJP 36.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 24.8% to 20.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.4% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.4% to 83.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,16,151
Turnout
83.2%
Valid votes
9,28,819
Margin
1,87,300
20.17%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1ANIL BASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,21,50756.1%
- 2CHUNILAL CHAKRABORTYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,34,20736.0%
- 3PROVAT KIRAN CHAKRABARTIIndian National Congress · INC73,1057.9%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- −34.7%
- CPM share
- 59.6% → 56.1%
- BJP share
- 4.7% → 36.0%
- Turnout
- 85.6% → 83.2%