Constituency
518. Diamond Harbour
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-DIAMOND-HARBOUR
CPM 47.7%won by 8.4%AITC 39.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.9% to 8.4%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 39.3% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 4.2% to 74.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,36,879
Turnout
74.3%
Valid votes
8,44,342
Margin
71,163
8.43%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1Samik LahiriCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,02,76147.7%
- 2Sardar Amjad AliAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC3,31,59839.3%
- 3Sk Daulat AliIndian National Congress · INC1,06,34412.6%
- 4Kishor Kumar GhoshIndependent · IND1,1650.1%
- 5Gopal Roy SafaiIndependent · IND1,0880.1%
- 6Bitan MondalIndependent · IND8140.1%
- 7Bechu MondalIndependent · IND5720.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −37.5%
- CPM share
- 46.0% → 47.7%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 39.3%
- Turnout
- 78.5% → 74.3%