Constituency
525. Howrah
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-HOWRAH
CPM 50.0%won by 10.5%AITC 39.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: WBTC (WBTC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 10.5%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 42.5% to 50.0% of the vote here (+7.4%).
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 39.4% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 3.0% to 71.0%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
13,81,960
Turnout
71.0%
Valid votes
9,81,399
Margin
1,03,449
10.54%
Candidates
18 contested · winner CPM- 1Swadesh ChakrabortyCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,90,53750.0%
- 2Dr. Kakoli Ghosh DastidarAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC3,87,08839.4%
- 3Dr.Subhash Chandra BandyopadhyayIndian National Congress · INC90,5929.2%
- 4Astogopal MondalIndependent · IND3,2140.3%
- 5Bijay Kumar SinghSamajwadi Party · SP2,9520.3%
- 6Ram Bilas PrasadBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6050.2%
- 7Ashok Kumar AgarwalRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD9080.1%
- 8Bechan Lal ChaudhuryIndependent · IND8690.1%
- 9Shyam Bihari SinghJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS8240.1%
- 10Bijay SinghIndependent · IND7290.1%
- 11Debendra Kumar SonkarIndependent · IND4680.0%
- 12Asoke RoyIndependent · IND4380.0%
- 13Ranjit ChatterjeeIndependent · IND2710.0%
- 14Samar MondalIndependent · IND2000.0%
- 15Prasanta Kumar MahatoIndependent · IND1960.0%
- 16Rajendra PrasadNationalist Congress Party · NCP1950.0%
- 17Shekh Alauddin RajIndependent · IND1930.0%
- 18Sushil BaganiIndependent · IND1200.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- WBTC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–AITC swing
- −32.0%
- CPM share
- 42.5% → 50.0%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 39.4%
- Turnout
- 74.0% → 71.0%