Constituency
522. Calcutta North West
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-CALCUTTA-NORTH-WEST
AITC 46.6%won by 21.2%CPM 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: WBTC (WBTC) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 21.2%.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 0.0% to 46.6% of the vote here (+46.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.0% between them, down from 82.2% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.5% to 63.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
7,04,009
Turnout
63.0%
Valid votes
4,43,486
Margin
94,170
21.23%
Candidates
13 contested · winner AITC- 1Sudip BandyopadhyayAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC2,06,68446.6%
- 2Rajdeo GoalaCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,12,51425.4%
- 3Siddhartha Sankar RayIndian National Congress · INC1,06,43024.0%
- 4Sasanka SahaIndependent · IND3,8880.9%
- 5Masarrat BegumJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS3,0760.7%
- 6AsiruddinRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD2,6020.6%
- 7Purna Chandra GhoshIndependent · IND1,9140.4%
- 8Narayan SahaIndependent · IND1,8570.4%
- 9Pradyut SahaIndependent · IND1,1730.3%
- 10Indranil CoomarIndependent · IND1,1410.3%
- 11Parimal BiswasJanahitha Paksha · JP1,0170.2%
- 12Imtiaz Alam(Fahim)Independent · IND6260.1%
- 13Bihari Lal ThaliaIndependent · IND5640.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- WBTC
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–CPM swing
- +54.4%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 46.6%
- CPM share
- 33.2% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- 66.5% → 63.0%