Constituency
538. Durgapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-DURGAPUR
CPM 59.6%won by 32.7%BJP 26.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 13.6% to 32.7%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 86.5% between them, down from 92.7% — 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
11,50,939
Turnout
73.7%
Valid votes
8,47,616
Margin
2,77,508
32.74%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1Sunil KhanCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,05,25059.6%
- 2Shib Narayan SahaBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,27,74226.9%
- 3Dhibar ShovaIndian National Congress · INC72,4198.5%
- 4Umakanta BhakatSJPR · SJPR15,0511.8%
- 5Rabindranath BouriIndependent · IND12,3641.5%
- 6Banshi LoharIndependent · IND8,7791.0%
- 7Mohan Ch. BouriBahujan Samaj Party · BSP6,0110.7%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- +19.2%
- CPM share
- 53.2% → 59.6%
- BJP share
- 39.6% → 26.9%
- Turnout
- 71.7% → 73.7%