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540. Burdwan

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004

IN-BURDWAN

CPM 67.5%won by 47.3%BJP 20.2%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 31.0% to 47.3%.

  • 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
12,21,820
Turnout
81.6%
Valid votes
9,97,024
Margin
4,71,351
47.28%

Candidates

5 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1Nikhilananda SarCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM6,73,09167.5%
  2. 2Anindya Gopal MitraBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,01,74020.2%
  3. 3Champak GaraiIndian National Congress · INC88,2178.8%
  4. 4Shanti MurmuJDP · JDP21,5602.2%
  5. 5Dinesh Chandra SikdarBahujan Samaj Party · BSP12,4161.2%

Since 1999

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–BJP swing
+16.2%
CPM share
61.6% → 67.5%
BJP share
30.5% → 20.2%
Turnout
79.9% → 81.6%
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