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541. Katwa

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West Bengal · India Lok Sabha Election, 2004

IN-KATWA

CPM 51.2%won by 14.8%AITC 36.4%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.8% to 14.8%.

  • TurnoutTurnout rose 5.0% to 82.6%.
  • 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
11,69,525
Turnout
82.6%
Valid votes
9,66,263
Margin
1,43,349
14.84%

Candidates

12 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1Mahboob ZahediCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,94,71651.2%
  2. 2Ahmed SultanAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC3,51,36736.4%
  3. 3Saifuddin ChoudhuryPDS · PDS60,6936.3%
  4. 4Hossain AmjadIndependent · IND14,6851.5%
  5. 5Susil SarkarBahujan Samaj Party · BSP10,3231.1%
  6. 6Shyamsundar DasIndependent · IND8,8570.9%
  7. 7Salil DuttaCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL6,2900.7%
  8. 8Swapan BhattacharyaShiv Sena · SHS5,4420.6%
  9. 9Rina MondalIndependent · IND3,9070.4%
  10. 10Kailash SharmaSamajwadi Party · SP3,5410.4%
  11. 11Mohammad ZakariaIndependent · IND3,3620.3%
  12. 12Bablu Chandra DasIndependent · IND3,0800.3%

Since 1999

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–AITC swing
+3.0%
CPM share
50.3% → 51.2%
AITC share
38.5% → 36.4%
Turnout
77.6% → 82.6%
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