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510. Murshidabad

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-MURSHIDABAD

CPM 47.3%won by 14.9%INC 32.4%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.5% to 14.9%.

  • TurnoutTurnout fell 9.8% to 70.5%.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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

Electorate
11,72,830
Turnout
70.5%
Valid votes
8,27,395
Margin
1,23,360
14.91%

Candidates

10 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1Moinul HassanCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,91,36647.3%
  2. 2Mannan HossainIndian National Congress · INC2,68,00632.4%
  3. 3Sagir HossainAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,42,27517.2%
  4. 4Khadija BanuIndependent · IND11,7731.4%
  5. 5Moulana Md. Abdul BariMUL · MUL6,2200.8%
  6. 6Sandhya MandalBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,2890.4%
  7. 7Nripendra Nath MandalIndependent · IND2,1780.3%
  8. 8Hasrat Ali MandalIndependent · IND9210.1%
  9. 9Uttam HalderIndependent · IND8590.1%
  10. 10Rezwan MeerzaIndependent · IND5080.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–INC swing
−5.6%
CPM share
50.0% → 47.3%
INC share
29.4% → 32.4%
Turnout
80.4% → 70.5%
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