Constituency
515. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-BASIRHAT
CPI 51.0%won by 20.1%AITC 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.6% to 20.1%.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.0% 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
11,07,129
Turnout
82.0%
Valid votes
9,07,585
Margin
1,82,084
20.06%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPI- 1Ajay ChakrabortyCommunist Party of India · CPI4,62,60551.0%
- 2Sujit BoseAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC2,80,52130.9%
- 3Syed Md. NizamuddinIndian National Congress · INC1,09,62912.1%
- 4Md. QuamruzzamanSamajwadi Party · SP25,7732.8%
- 5Kartick Chandra SarkarIndependent · IND12,4871.4%
- 6Gopal DebnathBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,3010.8%
- 7Ashrafi Hassan ShahidullahIndian National League · INL4,7800.5%
- 8Ajoy GhoraIndependent · IND4,4890.5%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–AITC swing
- +10.4%
- CPI share
- 47.6% → 51.0%
- AITC share
- 38.0% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- 79.9% → 82.0%