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539. Asansol

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999

IN-ASANSOL

CPM 46.3%won by 4.6%AITC 41.6%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 3.0% to 4.6%.

  • New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 41.6% — it did not contest here in 1998.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.9% of the vote between them, up from 79.2% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • TurnoutTurnout fell 5.2% to 64.4%.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
12,65,480
Turnout
64.4%
Valid votes
8,15,292
Margin
37,864
4.64%

Candidates

7 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1Bikash ChowdhuryCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,77,26546.3%
  2. 2Ajit Ghatak (Moloy Ghatak)All India Trinamool Congress · AITC3,39,40141.6%
  3. 3Manik UpadhyayIndian National Congress · INC89,26110.9%
  4. 4Manik BouriBahujan Samaj Party · BSP5,2220.6%
  5. 5Jitendra MandalAMB · AMB2,3540.3%
  6. 6Pradip Kumar BanerjeeIndependent · IND9700.1%
  7. 7Dilip PaswanIndependent · IND8190.1%

Since 1998

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–AITC swing
−36.4%
CPM share
41.1% → 46.3%
AITC share
0.0% → 41.6%
Turnout
69.6% → 64.4%
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