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515. Basirhat

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-BASIRHAT

CPI 47.6%won by 9.6%AITC 38.0%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.8% to 9.6%.

  • New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 38.0% — it did not contest here in 1998.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 2.7% to 79.9%.

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

Electorate
10,71,134
Turnout
79.9%
Valid votes
8,56,295
Margin
82,587
9.64%

Candidates

5 contested · winner CPI
  1. 1Ajoy ChakrabortyCommunist Party of India · CPI4,07,90347.6%
  2. 2M. NuruzzamanAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC3,25,31638.0%
  3. 3Abu Tayeb M. Moazam HossinIndian National Congress · INC1,18,61213.9%
  4. 4Md. Sahadat AliMUL · MUL2,4170.3%
  5. 5Arun GhoshIndependent · IND2,0470.2%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
CPI
Winner now
CPI
CPI–AITC swing
−39.2%
CPI share
48.9% → 47.6%
AITC share
0.0% → 38.0%
Turnout
82.7% → 79.9%
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