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West Bengal Lok Sabha 1999

Results board · 42 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha
StateWest Bengal
Seats
42
Constituencies
Majority
22
Seats needed of 42
Electors
4.76Cr
On the roll
Votes polled
3.58Cr
75.0% of electors
Median turnout
76.7%
Median of 42 seats
CPI(M) short
−1
Below majority · 21 − 22

[01]Seat matrix

42 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won
Hemicycle of 42 seats: CPI(M) 21, AITC 8, INC 3, CPI 3, RSP 3, BJP 2, AIFB 2. Majority line at 22 seats. Hemicycle of 42 seats: CPI(M) 21, AITC 8, INC 3, CPI 3, RSP 3, BJP 2, AIFB 2. Majority line at 22 seats.
Majority · 22 of 42CPI(M) 21 · 1 short of majority
CPI(M) 2150.0% Communist Party of India (Marxist)
AITC 819.0% All India Trinamool Congress
INC 37.1% Indian National Congress
CPI 37.1% Communist Party of India
RSP 37.1% Revolutionary Socialist Party
BJP 24.8% Bharatiya Janata Party
AIFB 24.8% All India Forward Bloc

[02]Vote share

State level, as published
CPI(M) 35.6%21 seats · 50.0%
AITC 26.0%8 seats · 19.0%
INC 13.3%3 seats · 7.1%
BJP 11.1%2 seats · 4.8%
RSP 4.3%3 seats · 7.1%
Others 9.7%5 seats · 11.9%

Vote share not published

  • CPI3 seats
  • AIFB2 seats

The published shares sum to 100.0%, so these parties' votes sit inside Others.

Alliances

THIRD FRONT 46.7%29 seats
NDA 37.2%10 seats
UPA 13.3%3 seats
OTHERS 2.8%Seats not published

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. CPI(M) converted 35.6% of votes into 50.0% of seats, a seat premium of 14.4 pp.

    21 ÷ 42 = 50.0% · 50.0 − 35.6 = +14.4

  2. AITC polled 26.0% of votes, the 2nd-highest share, but won 8 seats (19.0%).

    8 ÷ 42 = 19.0% · 19.0 − 26.0 = −7.0

  3. Contai was decided by 12,133 votes, the closest of 42 seats; Burdwan had the widest margin, 3,01,683.

    min / max of margin over 42 seats with a recorded margin

  4. In SC-reserved seats CPI(M) won 5 of 10 (50.0%), against 50.0% of all seats.

    5 ÷ 10 = 50.0% · 21 ÷ 42 = 50.0%

  5. Turnout ran from 46.2% in Darjeeling to 83.8% in Tamluk; the median seat polled 76.7%.

    min / median / max over 42 seats with a recorded turnout

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[04]Turnout

42 of 42 seats carry a turnout
025507510076.7%MEDIAN SEAT
< 50% 12.4% of seats
50–60 00.0% of seats
60–70 511.9% of seats
70–80 2559.5% of seats
≥ 80% 1126.2% of seats
  • LowestDarjeeling46.2%
  • HighestTamluk83.8%
  • NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

42 rows · by constituency number
Constituency results, West Bengal Lok Sabha 1999, all 42 seats
# Constituency Winner Party Votes polled Margin Margin % Turnout %
01 Cooch BeharSC Amar Roy Pradhan All India Forward Bloc 9,02,487 1,08,165 12.0 80.8
02 AlipurduarsST Joachim Baxla Revolutionary Socialist Party 7,77,585 1,53,133 19.7 74.8
03 JalpaiguriSC Minati Sen Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,44,223 1,08,937 12.9 76.6
04 Darjeeling S.P. Lepcha Communist Party of India (Marxist) 5,90,023 1,11,969 19.0 46.2
05 Raiganj Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi Indian National Congress 8,85,408 75,255 8.5 77.4
06 Balurghat Barman Ranen Revolutionary Socialist Party 8,51,433 62,921 7.4 76.9
07 Malda Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury Indian National Congress 8,19,770 24,553 3.0 78.3
08 Jangipur Abul Hasnat Khan Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,85,797 61,317 7.8 72.3
09 Murshidabad Moinul Hassan Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,36,120 1,23,360 14.8 71.3
10 Berhampore Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury Indian National Congress 9,37,646 95,391 10.2 77.3
11 Krishnagar Satyabrata Mookherjee Bharatiya Janata Party 8,45,489 22,234 2.6 78.0
12 Nabadwip Ananda Mohan Biswas All India Trinamool Congress 10,14,379 39,135 3.9 76.8
13 BarasatSC Dr.Ranjit Kumar Panja All India Trinamool Congress 10,43,590 96,900 9.3 80.1
14 BasirhatSC Ajoy Chakraborty Communist Party of India 8,66,835 82,587 9.5 80.9
15 Joynagar Sanat Kumar Mondal Revolutionary Socialist Party 8,15,915 1,12,301 13.8 73.1
16 Mathurapur Radhika Ranjan Pramanik Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,28,886 51,725 6.2 77.0
17 Diamond Harbour Samik Lahiri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,58,209 71,163 8.3 75.5
18 Jadavpur Krishna Bose All India Trinamool Congress 10,05,286 66,765 6.6 71.6
19 BarrackporeSC Tarit Baran Topdar Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,45,189 40,775 4.8 81.3
20 Dum DumSC Tapan Sikdar Bharatiya Janata Party 12,09,926 1,34,561 11.1 75.7
21 Calcutta North West Sudip Bandyopadhyay All India Trinamool Congress 4,44,043 94,170 21.2 63.1
22 Calcutta North East Ajit Kumar Panja All India Trinamool Congress 6,58,740 41,574 6.3 71.2
23 Calcutta South Mamata Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress 8,05,268 2,14,008 26.6 67.0
24 Howrah Swadesh Chakraborty Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,95,422 1,03,449 10.4 72.0
25 Uluberia Hannan Mollah Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,18,915 67,577 8.3 74.4
26 Serampore Akbor Ali Khandoker All India Trinamool Congress 9,25,995 47,764 5.2 69.9
27 Hooghly Rupchand Pal Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,30,831 12,485 1.3 80.2
28 Arambagh Anil Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,44,408 1,16,721 12.4 82.6
29 PanskuraSC Gita Mukherjee Communist Party of India 8,24,564 46,858 5.7 83.6
30 Tamluk Lakshman Chandra Seth Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,19,886 54,826 6.0 83.8
31 ContaiCLOSEST Neetish Sengupta All India Trinamool Congress 8,23,941 12,133 1.5 83.2
32 Midnapore Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 8,62,567 28,773 3.3 78.5
33 JhargramST Rupchand Murmu Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,03,200 1,08,681 13.5 81.0
34 Purulia Birsingh Mahato All India Forward Bloc 6,92,271 1,74,870 25.3 68.7
35 Bankura Acharia Basudeb Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,41,303 1,06,998 14.4 71.2
36 Vishnupur Sandhya Bauri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,46,339 1,81,570 21.5 79.0
37 DurgapurSC Sunil Khan Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,85,335 1,17,963 13.3 73.0
38 AsansolSC Bikash Chowdhury Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,29,147 37,864 4.6 65.5
39 BurdwanWIDEST Sar Nikhilananda Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,84,678 3,01,683 30.6 80.9
40 Katwa Mahboob Zahedi Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,33,089 1,08,362 11.6 78.8
41 BolpurSC Somnath Chatterjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,92,871 1,86,389 23.5 76.4
42 Birbhum Ram Chandra Dome Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,34,173 1,57,156 21.4 70.3
Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 3,01,683 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1999 · West Bengal · 42 seats · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Vote share and alliancesState-level summary published with the same results · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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