Constituency
416. Tripura East
Community mirrorTripura · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-TRIPURA-EAST
CPM 54.8%won by 27.1%BJP 27.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.4% to 27.1%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.6% between them, down from 89.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 12.4% to 65.1%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,54,764
Turnout
65.1%
Valid votes
5,56,251
Margin
1,50,500
27.06%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1Baju Ban RiyanCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,04,93454.8%
- 2Jishnu Dev VarmaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,54,43427.8%
- 3Kashiram ReangIndian National Congress · INC83,78915.1%
- 4Debabrata KoloyIndependent · IND7,3431.3%
- 5Samarendra ChakmaAMB · AMB5,7511.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- −13.5%
- CPM share
- 50.3% → 54.8%
- BJP share
- 9.7% → 27.8%
- Turnout
- 77.5% → 65.1%