Constituency
532. Contai
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-CONTAI
AITC 48.4%won by 1.5%CPM 47.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 1.5%.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 0.0% to 48.4% of the vote here (+48.4%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.4% of the vote between them, up from 86.5% — a tighter two-way contest.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.5% to 82.3%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
9,90,917
Turnout
82.3%
Valid votes
8,15,448
Margin
12,133
1.49%
Candidates
7 contested · winner AITC- 1Neetish SenguptaAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC3,95,04848.4%
- 2Sudhir GiriCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,82,91547.0%
- 3Ajit KhanraIndian National Congress · INC34,0704.2%
- 4Sudarsan MannaJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS1,4510.2%
- 5Dr. B. Dev RoyNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,0380.1%
- 6Manabendra MandalIndependent · IND6360.1%
- 7Tapan Kumar MandalIndependent · IND2900.0%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–CPM swing
- +49.3%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 48.4%
- CPM share
- 47.8% → 47.0%
- Turnout
- 84.8% → 82.3%