Constituency
539. Asansol
Community mirrorWest Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004
IN-ASANSOL
CPM 51.0%won by 17.1%AITC 33.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 4.6% to 17.1%.
- 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
10,92,141
Turnout
66.4%
Valid votes
7,25,198
Margin
1,24,318
17.14%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1Bikash ChowdhuryCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM3,69,83251.0%
- 2Ghatak MoloyAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC2,45,51433.9%
- 3Tapas BanerjeeIndian National Congress · INC70,8679.8%
- 4Sunil MukherjeeIndependent · IND12,5521.7%
- 5Manik Lal BauriBahujan Samaj Party · BSP8,8301.2%
- 6Pratap SinghSamajwadi Party · SP6,8280.9%
- 7Sailendra Nath BhattacharyyaIndependent · IND6,2860.9%
- 8Atanu ChakravartyCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL4,4890.6%
Since 1999
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- +12.5%
- CPM share
- 46.3% → 51.0%
- AITC share
- 41.6% → 33.9%
- Turnout
- 64.4% → 66.4%