Constituency
543. Birbhum
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 1999
IN-BIRBHUM
CPM 51.6%won by 21.7%BJP 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 20.8% to 21.7%.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 6.1% to 69.3%.
- 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
10,43,876
Turnout
69.3%
Valid votes
7,23,560
Margin
1,57,156
21.72%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1Ram Chandra DomeCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,73,68751.6%
- 2Dr. Madan Lal ChoudhuryBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,16,53129.9%
- 3Asit Kumar MalIndian National Congress · INC1,26,30517.5%
- 4Brajo Mohon DasIndependent · IND4,8080.7%
- 5Narayan Chandra DasJanahitha Paksha · JP2,2290.3%
Since 1998
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- +0.9%
- CPM share
- 49.1% → 51.6%
- BJP share
- 28.2% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- 75.4% → 69.3%