Constituency
525. Howrah
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-HOWRAH
CPM 53.7%won by 27.1%AITC 26.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.5% to 27.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.3% between them, down from 89.4% — the field split more ways.
- TurnoutTurnout rose 2.5% to 73.5%.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
12,40,427
Turnout
73.5%
Valid votes
9,11,632
Margin
2,46,937
27.09%
Candidates
14 contested · winner CPM- 1Swadesh ChakraborttyCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,89,44453.7%
- 2Dr. Bikram SarkarAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC2,42,50726.6%
- 3Sultan SinghIndian National Congress · INC1,52,10016.7%
- 4Mantu DasIndependent · IND5,7880.6%
- 5Anup DeyJanata Dal (Secular) · JDS4,0130.4%
- 6Prasadi RamIndependent · IND2,9270.3%
- 7Rabindra Kumar JaiswalBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,8640.3%
- 8Monoranjan PolleyIndependent · IND2,4450.3%
- 9Bimal MondalIndependent · IND2,3130.3%
- 10Aloke GhoshIndependent · IND2,0130.2%
- 11Panchu Gopal BaganiIndependent · IND1,7710.2%
- 12Goutam MondalIndependent · IND1,5210.2%
- 13Gautam SahaIndependent · IND1,2630.1%
- 14Gopal Chandra ModiIndependent · IND6630.1%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- +16.5%
- CPM share
- 50.0% → 53.7%
- AITC share
- 39.4% → 26.6%
- Turnout
- 71.0% → 73.5%