Constituency
530. Panskura
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-PANSKURA
CPI 54.9%won by 21.9%WBTC 33.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.4% to 21.9%.
- New challengerWBTC (WBTC) finished second with 33.0% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.9% between them, down from 96.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.5% to 84.8%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,66,739
Turnout
84.8%
Valid votes
8,20,080
Margin
1,79,543
21.89%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPI- 1GEETA MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI4,50,09254.9%
- 2DR SAUMEN MAHAPATRAWBTC · WBTC2,70,54933.0%
- 3SANDHYA DEIndian National Congress · INC99,43912.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–WBTC swing
- −32.9%
- CPI share
- 54.8% → 54.9%
- WBTC share
- 0.0% → 33.0%
- Turnout
- 88.3% → 84.8%