Constituency
542. Bolpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-BOLPUR
CPM 59.4%won by 23.8%AITC 35.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 31.8% to 23.8%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 35.5% — it did not contest here in 1998.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.9% of the vote between them, up from 87.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,37,427
Turnout
75.4%
Valid votes
7,81,954
Margin
1,86,389
23.84%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1Somnath ChatterjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,64,19959.4%
- 2Suniti ChattarajAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC2,77,81035.5%
- 3Dr. Susil BanerjeeIndian National Congress · INC37,0934.7%
- 4NazmaJanahitha Paksha · JP2,8520.4%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −35.7%
- CPM share
- 59.6% → 59.4%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 35.5%
- Turnout
- 77.3% → 75.4%