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415. Tripura West

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Tripura · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-TRIPURA-WEST

CPM 57.5%won by 30.6%AITC 26.9%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.6% to 30.6%.

  • New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 26.9% — it did not contest here in 1998.
  • Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 84.3% between them, down from 92.4% — the field split more ways.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 12.1% to 68.9%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
9,41,291
Turnout
68.9%
Valid votes
6,48,343
Margin
1,98,399
30.60%

Candidates

12 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1Samar ChowdhuryCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,72,55357.5%
  2. 2Sudhir Ranjan MajumdarAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,74,15426.9%
  3. 3Pijush Kanti BiswasIndian National Congress · INC83,38412.9%
  4. 4Sridam Deb BarmaIndependent · IND5,2920.8%
  5. 5Partha KarmakarCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL3,4640.5%
  6. 6Jitendra Chandra DasIndependent · IND2,0230.3%
  7. 7Rakhalraj DattaAMB · AMB1,9120.3%
  8. 8Bir Ballav SahaNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,8950.3%
  9. 9Brajalal DebnathIndependent · IND1,3790.2%
  10. 10Pathik ChakrabortyIndependent · IND9510.1%
  11. 11Subrata BhowmikRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD9490.1%
  12. 12Madhusudan SahaAJBP · AJBP3870.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–AITC swing
−16.9%
CPM share
47.5% → 57.5%
AITC share
0.0% → 26.9%
Turnout
81.0% → 68.9%
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