Constituency
540. Burdwan
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1998
IN-BURDWAN
CPM 58.9%won by 27.7%BJP 31.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 27.2% to 27.7%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,90,380
Turnout
82.6%
Valid votes
9,83,107
Margin
2,72,253
27.69%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1SAR NIKHILANANDACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,78,82558.9%
- 2PROF (SMT) SANTI ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,06,57231.2%
- 3ABHAS BHATTACHARYYAIndian National Congress · INC94,9979.7%
- 4RABILAL HASDAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM2,7130.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- −26.5%
- CPM share
- 59.9% → 58.9%
- BJP share
- 5.7% → 31.2%
- Turnout
- 84.3% → 82.6%