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517. Mathurapur

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-MATHURAPUR

CPM 46.8%won by 6.3%AITC 40.5%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 12.0% to 6.3%.

  • New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 40.5% — it did not contest here in 1998.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.2% of the vote between them, up from 81.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 3.7% to 76.0%.

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

Electorate
10,76,730
Turnout
76.0%
Valid votes
8,18,609
Margin
51,725
6.32%

Candidates

4 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1Radhika Ranjan PramanikCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,82,96246.8%
  2. 2Gobinda Chandra NaskarAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC3,31,23740.5%
  3. 3Monoranjan HalderIndian National Congress · INC89,71911.0%
  4. 4Prahlad Kumar PurkaitIndependent · IND14,6911.8%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–AITC swing
−40.2%
CPM share
46.5% → 46.8%
AITC share
0.0% → 40.5%
Turnout
79.7% → 76.0%
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