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West Bengal Lok Sabha 1998

Results board · 42 constituencies

HouseLok Sabha
StateWest Bengal
Seats
42
Constituencies
Majority
22
Seats needed of 42
Electors
4.68Cr
On the roll
Votes polled
3.71Cr
79.3% of electors
Median turnout
80.9%
Median of 42 seats
CPI(M) lead
+2
Above majority · 24 − 22

[01]Seat matrix

42 seats · one dot per seat · ordered by seats won
Hemicycle of 42 seats: CPI(M) 24, WBTC 7, RSP 4, CPI 3, AIFB 2, BJP 1, INC 1. Majority line at 22 seats. Hemicycle of 42 seats: CPI(M) 24, WBTC 7, RSP 4, CPI 3, AIFB 2, BJP 1, INC 1. Majority line at 22 seats.
Majority · 22 of 42CPI(M) 24 · +2 above majority
CPI(M) 2457.1% Communist Party of India (Marxist)
WBTC 716.7% West Bengal Trinamool Congress
RSP 49.5% Revolutionary Socialist Party
CPI 37.1% Communist Party of India
AIFB 24.8% All India Forward Bloc
BJP 12.4% Bharatiya Janata Party
INC 12.4% Indian National Congress

[02]Vote share

State level, as published
CPI(M) 35.4%24 seats · 57.1%
WBTC 24.4%7 seats · 16.7%
INC 15.2%1 seat · 2.4%
BJP 10.2%1 seat · 2.4%
RSP 4.5%4 seats · 9.5%
Others 10.3%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 46.8%33 seats
NDA 34.3%8 seats
UPA 15.2%1 seat
OTHERS 3.7%Seats not published

[03]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. CPI(M) converted 35.4% of votes into 57.1% of seats, a seat premium of 21.7 pp.

    24 ÷ 42 = 57.1% · 57.1 − 35.4 = +21.7

  2. INC polled 15.2% of votes, the 3rd-highest share, but won 1 seat (2.4%).

    1 ÷ 42 = 2.4% · 2.4 − 15.2 = −12.8

  3. Hooghly was decided by 6,116 votes, the closest of 42 seats; Jhargram had the widest margin, 2,87,188.

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

  4. 3 seats were won by a margin under 1%; CPI(M) won 2 of them.

    count(margin % < 1.0) = 3 of 42 · CPI(M) 2

  5. In SC-reserved seats CPI(M) won 5 of 10 (50.0%), against 57.1% of all seats.

    5 ÷ 10 = 50.0% · 24 ÷ 42 = 57.1%

  6. Turnout ran from 51.8% in Darjeeling to 86.6% in Tamluk; the median seat polled 80.9%.

    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
025507510080.9%MEDIAN SEAT
< 50% 00.0% of seats
50–60 12.4% of seats
60–70 12.4% of seats
70–80 1740.5% of seats
≥ 80% 2354.8% of seats
  • LowestDarjeeling51.8%
  • HighestTamluk86.6%
  • NOTANOTA did not exist before 2013Not recorded

[05]Every seat

42 rows · by constituency number
Constituency results, West Bengal Lok Sabha 1998, all 42 seats
# Constituency Winner Party Votes polled Margin Margin % Turnout %
01 Cooch BeharSC Amar Roypradhan All India Forward Bloc 9,16,783 1,23,166 13.4 83.6
02 AlipurduarsST Joachim Baxla Revolutionary Socialist Party 8,27,362 1,95,599 23.6 80.8
03 JalpaiguriSC Minati Sen Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,87,722 1,74,975 19.7 81.8
04 Darjeeling Ananda Pathak Communist Party of India (Marxist) 6,41,281 1,22,556 19.1 51.8
05 Raiganj Subrata Mukherjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,98,301 6,281 0.7 79.8
06 Balurghat Ranen Barman Revolutionary Socialist Party 8,92,146 1,72,175 19.3 82.0
07 Malda Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury Indian National Congress 8,46,069 49,082 5.8 82.1
08 Jangipur Abul Hasnat Khan Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,40,406 72,501 8.6 78.5
09 Murshidabad Moinul Hassan Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,39,684 1,90,466 20.3 81.4
10 Berhampore Promothes Mukherjee Revolutionary Socialist Party 8,81,091 1,23,369 14.0 74.0
11 Krishnagar Ajoy Mukhopadhyay Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,97,928 40,672 4.5 84.1
12 Nabadwip Asim Bala Communist Party of India (Marxist) 10,89,650 41,154 3.8 83.9
13 BarasatSC Dr Ranjit Kumar Panja West Bengal Trinamool Congress 10,70,946 66,707 6.2 84.1
14 BasirhatSC Ajay Chakraborty Communist Party of India 8,82,985 1,20,076 13.6 83.8
15 Joynagar Sanat Kumar Mandal Revolutionary Socialist Party 8,58,356 1,76,061 20.5 78.0
16 Mathurapur Radhika Ranjan Pramanik Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,60,017 1,01,876 11.8 81.0
17 Diamond Harbour Samik Lahiri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,96,052 60,956 6.8 79.8
18 Jadavpur Krishna Bose West Bengal Trinamool Congress 10,67,448 78,201 7.3 77.4
19 BarrackporeSC Tarit Baran Topdar Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,46,373 27,957 3.3 82.6
20 Dum DumSC Tapan Sikdar Bharatiya Janata Party 12,62,384 1,37,405 10.9 80.9
21 Calcutta North West Sudip Bandyopadhyay West Bengal Trinamool Congress 4,69,378 73,483 15.7 67.5
22 Calcutta North East Ajit Kumar Panja West Bengal Trinamool Congress 6,68,942 64,872 9.7 73.5
23 Calcutta South Mamata Banerjee West Bengal Trinamool Congress 8,77,430 2,24,081 25.5 74.4
24 Howrah Dr Bikram Sarkar West Bengal Trinamool Congress 10,27,782 6,535 0.6 75.2
25 Uluberia Hannan Mollah Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,62,695 1,13,530 13.2 79.6
26 Serampore Akbor Ali Khandoker West Bengal Trinamool Congress 9,98,052 44,611 4.5 76.3
27 HooghlyCLOSEST Rupchand Pal Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,43,670 6,116 0.6 83.0
28 Arambagh Anil Basu Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,40,359 1,87,300 19.9 84.3
29 PanskuraSC Geeta Mukherjee Communist Party of India 8,31,273 1,79,543 21.6 86.0
30 Tamluk Lakshman Chandra Seth Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,42,965 87,952 9.3 86.6
31 Contai Sudhir Giri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,34,197 74,858 9.0 85.8
32 Midnapore Indrajit Gupta Communist Party of India 8,74,531 2,75,519 31.5 80.8
33 JhargramSTWIDEST Murmu Rupchand Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,21,526 2,87,188 35.0 84.6
34 Purulia Bir Singh Mahat0 All India Forward Bloc 7,47,609 1,57,137 21.0 75.1
35 Bankura Acharia Basudeb Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,66,640 1,11,583 14.6 74.5
36 Vishnupur Sandhya Bauri Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,62,530 1,73,241 20.1 81.1
37 DurgapurSC Khan Sunil Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,21,897 1,42,029 15.4 77.4
38 AsansolSC Bikash Chowdhury Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,83,829 26,149 3.0 71.1
39 Burdwan Sar Nikhilananda Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,97,277 2,72,253 27.3 83.8
40 Katwa Zahedi Mahboob Communist Party of India (Marxist) 9,65,238 1,38,707 14.4 83.5
41 BolpurSC Somnath Chatterjee Communist Party of India (Marxist) 8,03,382 2,51,092 31.3 78.6
42 Birbhum Dome Ram Chandra Communist Party of India (Marxist) 7,89,909 1,61,512 20.4 76.8
Margin bar scaled to the widest margin, 2,87,188 votes

Seat resultsElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Lok Sabha 1998 · 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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