Constituency
539. Asansol
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-ASANSOL
CPM 41.1%won by 3.0%WBTC 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 5.8% to 3.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerWBTC (WBTC) finished second with 38.1% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.2% between them, down from 87.0% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.3% to 69.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,42,690
Turnout
69.6%
Valid votes
8,64,840
Margin
26,149
3.02%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1BIKASH CHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,55,38241.1%
- 2AJIT KUMAR GHAATAK (MOLOY GHAATAK)WBTC · WBTC3,29,23338.1%
- 3AHLUWALIA S SIndian National Congress · INC1,10,61812.8%
- 4SOHRAB ALIRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD43,6435.0%
- 5SUNIL PALIndependent · IND9,3451.1%
- 6MANIK BAURIBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8,3861.0%
- 7JYOTIRMOY MAITISJPR · SJPR7,1060.8%
- 8GANES CHANDRA SARKARIndependent · IND1,1270.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–WBTC swing
- −43.4%
- CPM share
- 46.4% → 41.1%
- WBTC share
- 0.0% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- 67.3% → 69.6%