Constituency
536. Bankura
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-BANKURA
CPM 60.1%won by 33.1%AITC 27.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.8% to 33.1%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 27.0% — it did not contest here in 1999.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
10,20,046
Turnout
68.2%
Valid votes
6,95,487
Margin
2,30,329
33.12%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1Acharia BasudebCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,17,79860.1%
- 2Deb Prasad Kundu ( Tara)All India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,87,46927.0%
- 3Bhaskar Chandra BhadraIndependent · IND23,5533.4%
- 4Natabar BagdiPDS · PDS21,3063.1%
- 5Balaram MahatoJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM18,5082.7%
- 6Rahul SenSamajwadi Party · SP8,5681.2%
- 7Motilal MurmuBahujan Samaj Party · BSP7,8921.1%
- 8Abhiram BesraJDP · JDP6,4110.9%
- 9Gopinath MandiAMB · AMB3,9820.6%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −19.6%
- CPM share
- 52.7% → 60.1%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 27.0%
- Turnout
- 69.5% → 68.2%