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538. Durgapur

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-DURGAPUR

CPM 53.2%won by 13.6%BJP 39.6%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.7% to 13.6%.

  • TurnoutTurnout fell 4.2% to 71.7%.
  • 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
12,12,641
Turnout
71.7%
Valid votes
8,69,091
Margin
1,17,963
13.57%

Candidates

5 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1Sunil KhanCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,61,94053.2%
  2. 2Anil Kumar SahaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,43,97739.6%
  3. 3Haradhan MondalIndian National Congress · INC58,4076.7%
  4. 4Tara Pada MandalIndependent · IND3,2220.4%
  5. 5Rabindra Nath SahaIndependent · IND1,5450.2%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–BJP swing
−2.1%
CPM share
51.8% → 53.2%
BJP share
36.1% → 39.6%
Turnout
75.9% → 71.7%
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