Constituency
47. Silchar
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-SILCHAR
INC 55.5%won by 18.2%BJP 37.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 18.2%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 33.8% to 55.5% of the vote here (+21.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 92.9% of the vote between them, up from 70.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.7% to 71.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,27,760
Turnout
71.6%
Valid votes
5,92,867
Margin
1,07,752
18.17%
Candidates
13 contested · winner INC- 1Sontosh Mohan DevIndian National Congress · INC3,29,25655.5%
- 2Kabindra PurkayasthaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,21,50437.4%
- 3Abdul Muhib MazumderIndependent · IND29,0604.9%
- 4Subhash Mohan DebNationalist Congress Party · NCP5,7371.0%
- 5Chittaranjan SuklabaidyaIndependent · IND1,3380.2%
- 6Saumitra NathIndependent · IND1,2350.2%
- 7Rajendra Kumar SinhaIndependent · IND1,1810.2%
- 8Amiya Kanti DasIndependent · IND1,0000.2%
- 9Kantimoy DebIndependent · IND6830.1%
- 10Jowahar Lal GoalaIndependent · IND5810.1%
- 11Narayan ChoudhuryIndependent · IND5730.1%
- 12Nazmul Haque LaskarIndependent · IND5460.1%
- 13Gopal ChakrabortyIndependent · IND1730.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–BJP swing
- +21.4%
- INC share
- 33.8% → 55.5%
- BJP share
- 37.0% → 37.4%
- Turnout
- 75.3% → 71.6%