Constituency
47. Silchar
Community mirrorAssam · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-SILCHAR
INC 40.5%won by 3.5%BJP 37.0%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 18.2% to 3.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 15.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.5% between them, down from 92.9% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout fell 2.4% to 69.2%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
8,79,243
Turnout
69.2%
Valid votes
6,08,233
Margin
21,320
3.51%
Candidates
11 contested · winner INC- 1SONTOSH MOHAN DEVIndian National Congress · INC2,46,21540.5%
- 2KABINDRA PURKYASTHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,24,89537.0%
- 3ANWAR HUSSAIN LASKARSamajwadi Party · SP99,82016.4%
- 4NOORUL HUDACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,0203.3%
- 5SAMARENDRA GHOSHIndependent · IND4,9900.8%
- 6ALOK SENSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP4,5170.7%
- 7BENU BHUSON NATHIndependent · IND1,7200.3%
- 8ASHUTOSH DASIndependent · IND1,6730.3%
- 9KANTIMOY DEBIndependent · IND1,5300.3%
- 10KSHITINDRA SARKARIndependent · IND1,4340.2%
- 11MANORANJAN DASIndependent · IND1,4190.2%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–BJP swing
- −14.7%
- INC share
- 55.5% → 40.5%
- BJP share
- 37.4% → 37.0%
- Turnout
- 71.6% → 69.2%