Constituency
528. Hooghly
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-HOOGHLY
CPM 53.7%won by 18.1%AITC 35.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.4% to 18.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.4% between them, down from 94.5% — the field split more ways.
- 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
11,61,683
Turnout
79.6%
Valid votes
9,24,919
Margin
1,66,966
18.05%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1Rupchand PalCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,96,89053.7%
- 2Indrani MukherjeeAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC3,29,92435.7%
- 3Asok Kumar DasIndian National Congress · INC70,1737.6%
- 4Keshab Chandra SorenJDP · JDP16,9311.8%
- 5Matilal MandalBahujan Samaj Party · BSP11,0011.2%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- +16.7%
- CPM share
- 47.9% → 53.7%
- AITC share
- 46.6% → 35.7%
- Turnout
- 79.2% → 79.6%