Constituency
533. Midnapore
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-MIDNAPORE
CPI 48.6%won by 3.4%BJP 45.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 32.1% to 3.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.9% of the vote between them, up from 73.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,99,512
Turnout
77.5%
Valid votes
8,52,492
Margin
28,773
3.38%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPI- 1Indrajit GuptaCommunist Party of India · CPI4,14,54548.6%
- 2Manoranjon DuttaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,85,77245.3%
- 3Samir RoyIndian National Congress · INC47,0135.5%
- 4Akshay Kumar KhanIndependent · IND4,5120.5%
- 5Mritunjoy ChakrabortyIndependent · IND6500.1%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–BJP swing
- −28.7%
- CPI share
- 52.7% → 48.6%
- BJP share
- 20.6% → 45.3%
- Turnout
- 79.3% → 77.5%