Constituency
506. Raiganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-RAIGANJ
INC 46.7%won by 8.6%CPM 38.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 8.6%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 39.1% to 46.7% of the vote here (+7.7%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.9% of the vote between them, up from 78.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,44,667
Turnout
76.5%
Valid votes
8,75,716
Margin
75,255
8.59%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1Priya Ranjan DasmunsiIndian National Congress · INC4,09,33146.7%
- 2Subrata MukherjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,34,07638.1%
- 3Biplab MitraAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,10,04912.6%
- 4Adhyapak Md. SalahuddinNationalist Congress Party · NCP8,3861.0%
- 5Shri Ajit DasCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL8,0930.9%
- 6Subhas BalaBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,3320.4%
- 7SolaimanMUL · MUL2,4490.3%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–CPM swing
- +9.3%
- INC share
- 39.1% → 46.7%
- CPM share
- 39.8% → 38.1%
- Turnout
- 78.3% → 76.5%