Constituency
507. Balurghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-BALURGHAT
RSP 44.9%won by 7.7%BJP 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 7.5% to 7.7%.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 6.0% to 82.0%.
- 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
11,29,369
Turnout
82.0%
Valid votes
9,25,631
Margin
71,146
7.69%
Candidates
6 contested · winner RSP- 1Ranen BarmanRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP4,15,29844.9%
- 2Manomohan RayBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,44,15237.2%
- 3Dipti BarmanIndian National Congress · INC1,19,10412.9%
- 4Binoy MallickIndependent · IND19,5742.1%
- 5Gobinda SakarBahujan Samaj Party · BSP17,2301.9%
- 6Prahallad BarmanIndependent · IND10,2731.1%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–BJP swing
- +0.2%
- RSP share
- 44.7% → 44.9%
- BJP share
- 37.2% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- 75.9% → 82.0%