Constituency
502. Cooch Behar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-COOCH-BEHAR
FBL 49.7%won by 12.1%AITC 37.6%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.6% to 12.1%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 37.6% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.3% of the vote between them, up from 73.9% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.6% to 79.9%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,16,523
Turnout
79.9%
Valid votes
8,91,829
Margin
1,08,165
12.13%
Candidates
7 contested · winner FBL- 1Amar Roy PradhanFBL · FBL4,43,14849.7%
- 2Ambika Charan RayAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC3,34,98337.6%
- 3Sabita RoyIndian National Congress · INC90,37810.1%
- 4Papiya BarmanBahujan Samaj Party · BSP17,1881.9%
- 5Mahendra Nath DasIndependent · IND2,7660.3%
- 6Nripen KarjeeIndependent · IND2,3850.3%
- 7Usha RoyNationalist Congress Party · NCP9810.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–AITC swing
- −31.6%
- FBL share
- 43.8% → 49.7%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 37.6%
- Turnout
- 82.5% → 79.9%