Constituency
49. Dhubri
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-DHUBRI
INC 34.6%won by 2.6%BJP 31.9%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 25.9% to 2.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.5% between them, down from 74.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.7% to 77.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,50,547
Turnout
77.0%
Valid votes
8,09,069
Margin
21,340
2.64%
Candidates
8 contested · winner INC- 1Abdul HamidIndian National Congress · INC2,79,81234.6%
- 2Dr Pannalal OswalBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,58,47231.9%
- 3Afzalur RahmanIndependent · IND1,74,87921.6%
- 4Alauddin SarkarCommunist Party of India · CPI57,7357.1%
- 5Ahmed HussainNationalist Congress Party · NCP16,6112.1%
- 6Minhar Ali MandalIndependent · IND11,8921.5%
- 7Prabir Kumar RavaIndependent · IND5,7850.7%
- 8Safior Rahman TalukdarAJBP · AJBP3,8830.5%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −23.2%
- INC share
- 50.0% → 34.6%
- BJP share
- 24.2% → 31.9%
- Turnout
- 71.3% → 77.0%