Constituency
533. Midnapore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-MIDNAPORE
CPI 52.7%won by 32.1%BJP 20.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 24.3% to 32.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.5% — 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).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.4% between them, down from 88.3% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.2% to 79.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,81,863
Turnout
79.3%
Valid votes
8,58,210
Margin
2,75,519
32.10%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPI- 1INDRAJIT GUPTACommunist Party of India · CPI4,52,67152.7%
- 2DUTTA MANORANJANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,77,15220.6%
- 3DR NITISH SENGUPTAWBTC · WBTC1,31,35215.3%
- 4SATISH CHANDRA JANAIndian National Congress · INC90,73710.6%
- 5SHEIK ABU BAKARIndependent · IND3,4480.4%
- 6KALIPADA TUDUJan Kalyan Party · JKP1,7020.2%
- 7GAJEN NAYAKAMB · AMB1,1480.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–BJP swing
- −17.4%
- CPI share
- 56.3% → 52.7%
- BJP share
- 6.8% → 20.6%
- Turnout
- 82.5% → 79.3%