Constituency
521. Dum Dum
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-DUM-DUM
BJP 51.6%won by 11.3%CPM 40.3%
What changed here
DerivedBharatiya Janata Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 11.0% to 11.3%.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 5.3% to 74.5%.
- 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
15,98,044
Turnout
74.5%
Valid votes
11,91,114
Margin
1,34,561
11.30%
Candidates
9 contested · winner BJP- 1Tapan SikdarBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,14,47151.6%
- 2Anil BhattacharyaCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,79,91040.3%
- 3Ramesh BhattacharjeeIndian National Congress · INC85,6487.2%
- 4Bimal Krishna BiswasBahujan Samaj Party · BSP4,8480.4%
- 5Manas ChakrabortyIndependent · IND1,8620.2%
- 6Suryya RayNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,6580.1%
- 7Prabir GhosalIndependent · IND9560.1%
- 8Ajit NandiIndependent · IND9450.1%
- 9Saikat NayakIndependent · IND8160.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- BJP
- Winner now
- BJP
- BJP–CPM swing
- +0.3%
- BJP share
- 50.7% → 51.6%
- CPM share
- 39.7% → 40.3%
- Turnout
- 79.8% → 74.5%