Constituency
540. Burdwan
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-BURDWAN
CPM 61.6%won by 31.0%BJP 30.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 27.7% to 31.0%.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.7% to 79.9%.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
12,16,764
Turnout
79.9%
Valid votes
9,71,754
Margin
3,01,683
31.05%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1998
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- +3.4%
- CPM share
- 58.9% → 61.6%
- BJP share
- 31.2% → 30.5%
- Turnout
- 82.6% → 79.9%