Constituency
512. Krishnagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-KRISHNAGAR
BJP 43.8%won by 2.7%CPM 41.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which now leads by 2.7%.
- BJP vote shareBJP went from 37.4% to 43.8% of the vote here (+6.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 85.0% of the vote between them, up from 79.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.8% to 77.2%.
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Electorate
10,84,449
Turnout
77.2%
Valid votes
8,37,424
Margin
22,234
2.66%
Candidates
7 contested · winner BJP- 1Satyabrata MookherjeeBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,66,95443.8%
- 2Dilip ChakrabortyCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,44,72041.2%
- 3Ashim SahaIndian National Congress · INC1,06,13712.7%
- 4Biman BiswasCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL8,0851.0%
- 5Sk. KhodaboxIndependent · IND5,5480.7%
- 6Jaforulla MollaIndependent · IND3,4830.4%
- 7Amal Kumar MondalBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,4970.3%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- BJPflipped
- BJP–CPM swing
- +7.2%
- BJP share
- 37.4% → 43.8%
- CPM share
- 42.0% → 41.2%
- Turnout
- 83.0% → 77.2%