Constituency
503. Alipurduars
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-ALIPURDUARS
RSP 45.7%won by 17.3%BJP 28.4%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 20.1% to 17.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.1% between them, down from 82.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 7.3% to 80.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,45,042
Turnout
80.5%
Valid votes
8,40,836
Margin
1,45,124
17.26%
Candidates
6 contested · winner RSP- 1Joachim BaxlaRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP3,84,25245.7%
- 2Manoj TiggaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,39,12828.4%
- 3Ratan Lal BaraikIndian National Congress · INC1,69,49920.2%
- 4Samarendra Ekka ( Pintu)Independent · IND20,0142.4%
- 5Rampratap BaraikIndependent · IND14,0871.7%
- 6Paul Dexion KhariaIndependent · IND13,8561.6%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–BJP swing
- −2.9%
- RSP share
- 51.2% → 45.7%
- BJP share
- 31.1% → 28.4%
- Turnout
- 73.2% → 80.5%