Constituency
537. Vishnupur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-VISHNUPUR
CPM 64.3%won by 41.1%AITC 23.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 21.8% to 41.1%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 87.4% between them, down from 94.0% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
10,52,852
Turnout
76.6%
Valid votes
8,06,624
Margin
3,31,829
41.14%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1Susmita BauriCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,18,50764.3%
- 2Janardan SahaAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC1,86,67823.1%
- 3Achintya MajhiIndian National Congress · INC61,7937.7%
- 4Sraban MondalIndependent · IND29,0093.6%
- 5Ajoy BauriBahujan Samaj Party · BSP10,6371.3%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- +19.4%
- CPM share
- 57.9% → 64.3%
- AITC share
- 36.1% → 23.1%
- Turnout
- 77.9% → 76.6%