Constituency
536. Bankura
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BANKURA
CPM 49.4%won by 14.9%BJP 34.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.6% to 14.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.8% — 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 2.5% to 72.7%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,28,834
Turnout
72.7%
Valid votes
7,48,000
Margin
1,11,583
14.92%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1ACHARIA BASUDEBCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,69,69549.4%
- 2SUKUMAR BANERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,58,11234.5%
- 3KASHINATH MISRAIndian National Congress · INC74,1459.9%
- 4BAGHAMBAR MAHATOJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM35,6764.8%
- 5BHASKAR BHADRAIndependent · IND7,7491.0%
- 6LAXMI KANTA MAHATAAMB · AMB2,6230.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- −35.9%
- CPM share
- 56.2% → 49.4%
- BJP share
- 5.4% → 34.5%
- Turnout
- 75.2% → 72.7%