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520. Barrackpore

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-BARRACKPORE

CPM 48.1%won by 4.9%AITC 43.2%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.4% to 4.9%.

  • New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 43.2% — it did not contest here in 1998.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

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

Electorate
10,40,220
Turnout
79.9%
Valid votes
8,30,719
Margin
40,775
4.91%

Candidates

10 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1Tarit Baran TopdarCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,99,26948.1%
  2. 2Jayanta BhattacharyaAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC3,58,49443.2%
  3. 3Ashok SuklaIndian National Congress · INC59,7327.2%
  4. 4Parimal Kanti RayBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,4980.4%
  5. 5Anupam DuttaIndependent · IND3,3730.4%
  6. 6Meena PalCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,1860.3%
  7. 7Ashoke BairiaIndependent · IND1,6060.2%
  8. 8Swapan BiswasIndependent · IND1,1530.1%
  9. 9Rayazuddin AhmedNationalist Congress Party · NCP7160.1%
  10. 10Nirmal Gopal ChatterjeeIndependent · IND6920.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–AITC swing
−41.1%
CPM share
46.0% → 48.1%
AITC share
0.0% → 43.2%
Turnout
81.2% → 79.9%
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