Constituency
504. Jalpaiguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-JALPAIGURI
CPM 47.7%won by 20.3%AITC 27.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.1% to 20.3%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.0% between them, down from 84.5% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 5.1% to 80.6%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
11,04,784
Turnout
80.6%
Valid votes
8,90,105
Margin
1,80,605
20.29%
Candidates
10 contested · winner CPM- 1Minati SenCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,24,16347.7%
- 2Parash DuttaAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC2,43,55827.4%
- 3Dipak Krishna BhowmikIndian National Congress · INC1,30,25514.6%
- 4Nachhir Ali PramanikIndependent · IND19,3162.2%
- 5Subhasish DasguptaIndependent · IND18,4732.1%
- 6Shankar Kumar GanguliIndependent · IND14,7451.7%
- 7Santi Kumar SarkarBahujan Samaj Party · BSP13,6871.5%
- 8Bhim Chandra RoyIndependent · IND13,5271.5%
- 9Sankar DasCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL7,2780.8%
- 10Pabitra MaitraAMB · AMB5,1030.6%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- +7.2%
- CPM share
- 48.8% → 47.7%
- AITC share
- 35.7% → 27.4%
- Turnout
- 75.5% → 80.6%