Constituency

504. Jalpaiguri

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-JALPAIGURI

CPM 48.8%won by 13.1%AITC 35.7%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.1% to 13.1%.

New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 35.7% — it did not contest here in 1998.
Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.5% of the vote between them, up from 78.1% — a tighter two-way contest.
TurnoutTurnout fell 4.6% to 75.5%.

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

Electorate

11,01,898

Turnout

75.5%

Valid votes

8,31,795

Margin

1,08,937

13.10%