Constituency
511. Berhampore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-BERHAMPORE
INC 46.9%won by 10.3%RSP 36.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP) lost it to Indian National Congress (INC), which now leads by 10.3%.
- INC vote shareINC went from 21.8% to 46.9% of the vote here (+25.1%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 83.4% of the vote between them, up from 74.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 3.4% to 76.4%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,12,554
Turnout
76.4%
Valid votes
9,26,375
Margin
95,391
10.30%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1Adhir Ranjan ChowdhuryIndian National Congress · INC4,34,07346.9%
- 2Pramothes MukherjeeRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP3,38,68236.6%
- 3Colonel (Retd.) Sabyasachi BagchiBharatiya Janata Party · BJP1,34,56914.5%
- 4Jyotirmoy ThakurIndependent · IND8,9481.0%
- 5Nurul IslamMUL · MUL3,6180.4%
- 6Siddhartha ChatterjeeIndependent · IND2,6790.3%
- 7Sunil Kumar MandalBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,0660.1%
- 8Kanan Kumar SahaIndependent · IND9110.1%
- 9Sadhan RoyIndependent · IND8810.1%
- 10Santosh MajhiIndependent · IND7450.1%
- 11Anarul Haque MalithaIndependent · IND2030.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- INCflipped
- INC–RSP swing
- +33.0%
- INC share
- 21.8% → 46.9%
- RSP share
- 44.5% → 36.6%
- Turnout
- 73.0% → 76.4%