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All 42 West Bengal seats in theLok Sabha | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Turnout | 75.05%[2] ( | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below.
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The1999 Indian general election inWest Bengal was held on 1 October to elect 42 members of the12th Lok Sabha.
| Poll event | |
|---|---|
| Phase | V |
| Notification date | 03 September[3] |
| Last date for filing nomination | 10 September[4] |
| Scrutiny of nomination | 15 September[5] |
| Last Date for withdrawal of nomination | 17 September[6] |
| Date of poll | 01 October[7] |
| Date of counting of votes/Result | 05 October[8] |
| No. of constituencies | 42 |
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | Anil Biswas | 32[9] | |||
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | Manoj Bhattacharya | 4[10] | |||
| All India Forward Bloc | Debabrata Biswas | 3[11] | |||
| Communist Party of India | Swapan Banerjee | 3[12] | |||
| Total | 42 | ||||
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All India Trinamool Congress | Mamata Banerjee | 28[13] | |||
| Bharatiya Janata Party | Tapan Sikdar | 13[14] | |||
| Independent politician | Natabar Bagdi | 1[15] | |||
| Total | 42 | ||||
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Indian National Congress | A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury | 41[a][16] | ||||
| Jharkhand Party (Naren) | Naren Hansda | 2[b][17] | ||||
| Total | 42+1[c] | |||||
Others
| Party | Flag | Symbol | Leader | Seats contested | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) | Provash Ghosh | 42 | |||
| Constituency | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NDA | LF | INC+ | ||||||||
| 1 | Cooch Behar (SC) | AITC | Ambika Charan Ray | AIFB | Amar Roy Pradhan | INC | Sabita Roy | |||
| 2 | Alipurduars (ST) | BJP | Dhirendra Narjinarai | RSP | Joachim Baxla | INC | Basanti Baraik | |||
| 3 | Jalpaiguri | AITC | Kalyan Chakraborty | CPI(M) | Minati Sen | INC | Girija Sankar Roy | |||
| 4 | Darjeeling | AITC | Tarun Roy | CPI(M) | S. P. Lepcha | INC | Nar Bahadur Khatiwara | |||
| 5 | Raiganj | AITC | Biplab Mitra | CPI(M) | Subrata Mukherjee | INC | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | |||
| 6 | Balurghat (SC) | BJP | Subhash Ch. Barman | RSP | Barman Ranen | INC | Bikash Barman | |||
| 7 | Malda | BJP | Muzaffar Khan | CPI(M) | Sailen Sarkar | INC | Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury | |||
| 8 | Jangipur | AITC | Syed Mustaque Murshed | CPI(M) | Abul Hasnat Khan | INC | Mainul Haque | |||
| 9 | Murshidabad | AITC | Sagir Hossain | CPI(M) | Moinul Hassan | INC | Mannan Hossain | |||
| 10 | Berhampore | BJP | Colonel (Retd.) Sabyasachi Bagchi | RSP | Promothes Mukherjee | INC | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | |||
| 11 | Krishnanagar | BJP | Satyabrata Mookherjee | CPI(M) | Dilip Chakraborty | INC | Ashim Saha | |||
| 12 | Nabadwip (SC) | AITC | Ananda Mohan Biswas | CPI(M) | Asim Bala | INC | Biswas Shashanka Shekhor | |||
| 13 | Barasat | AITC | Ranjit Kumar Panja | AIFB | Saral Deb | INC | Ghosal Debi | |||
| 14 | Basirhat | AITC | Dr. M. Nuruzzaman | CPI | Ajoy Chakraborty | INC | Abu Tayeb M. Moazam Hossin | |||
| 15 | Joynagar (SC) | BJP | Krishna Pada Majumder | RSP | Sanat Kumar Mondal | INC | Jagat Pada Sanpui | |||
| 16 | Mathurapur (SC) | AITC | Gobinda Chandra Naskar | CPI(M) | Radhika Ranjan Pramanik | INC | Monoranjan Halder | |||
| 17 | Diamond Harbour | AITC | Sardar Amjad Ali | CPI(M) | Samik Lahiri | INC | Sk Daulat Ali | |||
| 18 | Jadavpur | AITC | Krishna Bose | CPI(M) | Kanti Ganguly | INC | Dr. Maya Ghose | |||
| 19 | Barrackpore | AITC | Jayanta Bhattacharya | CPI(M) | Tarit Baran Topdar | INC | Ashok Sukla | |||
| 20 | Dum Dum | BJP | Tapan Sikdar | CPI(M) | Anil Bhattacharya | INC | Ramesh Bhattacharjee | |||
| 21 | Calcutta North West | AITC | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | CPI(M) | Rajdeo Goala | INC | Siddhartha Sankar Ray | |||
| 22 | Calcutta North East | AITC | Ajit Kumar Panja | CPI(M) | Md. Salim | INC | Tapas Roy | |||
| 23 | Calcutta South | AITC | Mamata Banerjee | CPI(M) | Subhankar Chakraborty | INC | Partha Roy Chowdhury | |||
| 24 | Howrah | AITC | Dr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar | CPI(M) | Swadesh Chakraborty | INC | Dr. Subhash Chandra Bandyopadhyay | |||
| 25 | Uluberia | AITC | Dr. Sudipta Roy | CPI(M) | Hannan Mollah | INC | Sisir Kumar Sen | |||
| 26 | Serampore | AITC | Akbor Ali Khandoker | CPI(M) | Sudarsan Roy Chaudhury | INC | Pradip Bhattacharya | |||
| 27 | Hooghly | AITC | Tapan Das Gupta | CPI(M) | Rupchand Pal | INC | Dilip Nath | |||
| 28 | Arambagh | BJP | Chunilal Chakraborty | CPI(M) | Anil Basu | INC | Idrish Ali | |||
| 29 | Panskura | AITC | Gouri Ghosh | CPI | Gita Mukherjee | INC | Rajani Kanta Doloi | |||
| 30 | Tamluk | AITC | Nirmalendu Bhattacharjee | CPI(M) | Lakshman Chandra Seth | INC | Manik Bhowmik | |||
| 31 | Contai | AITC | Neetish Sengupta | CPI(M) | Sudhir Giri | INC | Ajit Khanra | |||
| 32 | Midnapore | BJP | Manoranjan Dutta | CPI | Indrajit Gupta | INC | Samir Roy | |||
| 33 | Jhargram (ST) | AITC | Dakhin Murmu | CPI(M) | Rupchand Murmu | JP(N) | Murmu Biswanath | |||
| 34 | Purulia | BJP | Tapati Mahato | AIFB | Bir Singh Mahato | INC | Nepal Mahata | |||
| 35 | Bankura | Ind. | Natabar Bagdi | CPI(M) | Basudeb Acharia | INC | Bula Chatterjee | |||
| 36 | Vishnupur (SC) | AITC | Adhibas Duley | CPI(M) | Sandhya Bauri | INC | Mallika Mandal | |||
| JP(N) | Saha Ajit | |||||||||
| 37 | Durgapur (SC) | BJP | Anil Kumar Saha | CPI(M) | Sunil Khan | INC | Haradhan Mondal | |||
| 38 | Asansol | AITC | Ajit Ghatak (Moloy Ghatak) | CPI(M) | Bikash Chowdhury | INC | Manik Upadhyay | |||
| 39 | Burdwan | BJP | Anup Mukherjee | CPI(M) | Nikhilananda Sar | INC | Raj Krishna Dawn | |||
| 40 | Katwa | AITC | Amal Kumar Dutta | CPI(M) | Mahboob Zahedi | INC | Tuhin Samanta | |||
| 41 | Bolpur | AITC | Suniti Chattaraj | CPI(M) | Somnath Chatterjee | INC | Dr. Susil Banerjee | |||
| 42 | Birbhum (SC) | BJP | Dr. Madan Lal Choudhury | CPI(M) | Ram Chandra Dome | INC | Asit Kumar Mal | |||
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Name | Party | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | Party | Alliance | Candidate | Votes | % | |||||
| 1 | Cooch Behar (SC) | AIFB | LF | Amar Roy Pradhan | 443,148 | 49.69% | AITC | NDA | Ambika Charan Choudhury | 334,983 | 37.56% | 108,165 | ||||
| 2 | Alipurduars (ST) | RSP | LF | Joachim Baxla | 389,919 | 51.25% | BJP | NDA | Dhirendra Narjinarai | 236,786 | 31.12% | 153,133 | ||||
| 3 | Jalpaiguri | CPI(M) | LF | Minati Sen | 405,785 | 48.78% | AITC | NDA | Kalyan Chakraborty | 296,848 | 35.69% | 108,937 | ||||
| 4 | Darjeeling | CPI(M) | LF | S. P. Lepcha | 256,826 | 44.24% | INC | UPA | Nar Bahadur Khatiwada | 144,857 | 24.96% | 111,969 | ||||
| 5 | Raiganj | INC | UPA | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | 409,331 | 46.74% | CPI(M) | LF | Subrata Mukherjee | 334,076 | 38.15% | 75,255 | ||||
| 6 | Balurghat (SC) | RSP | LF | Ranen Barman | 375,669 | 44.67% | BJP | NDA | Subhash Chandra Barman | 312,748 | 37.19% | 62,921 | ||||
| 7 | Malda | INC | UPA | A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury | 325,833 | 40.22% | CPI(M) | LF | Sailen Sarkar | 301,280 | 37.19% | 24,553 | ||||
| 8 | Jangipur | CPI(M) | LF | Abul Hasnat Khan | 352,580 | 45.47% | INC | UPA | Mainul Haque | 291,263 | 37.56% | 61,317 | ||||
| 9 | Murshidabad | CPI(M) | LF | Moinul Hassan | 391,366 | 47.30% | INC | UPA | Abdul Mannan Hossain | 268,006 | 32.39% | 123,360 | ||||
| 10 | Baharampur | INC | UPA | Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury | 434,073 | 46.86% | RSP | LF | Promothes Mukherjee | 338,682 | 36.56% | 95,391 | ||||
| 11 | Krishnanagar | BJP | NDA | Satyabrata Mookherjee | 366,954 | 43.82% | CPI(M) | LF | Dilip Chakraborty | 344,720 | 41.16% | 22,234 | ||||
| 12 | Nabadwip (SC) | AITC | NDA | Ananda Mohan Biswas | 459,319 | 45.84% | CPI(M) | LF | Asim Bala | 420,184 | 41.93% | 39,135 | ||||
| 13 | Barasat | AITC | NDA | Ranjit Kumar Panja | 518,520 | 50.28% | AIFB | LF | Saral Deb | 421,620 | 40.88% | 96,900 | ||||
| 14 | Basirhat | CPI | LF | Ajay Chakraborty | 407,903 | 47.64% | AITC | NDA | M. Nuruzzaman | 325,316 | 37.99% | 82,587 | ||||
| 15 | Jaynagar (SC) | RSP | LF | Sanat Kumar Mandal | 396,383 | 49.39% | BJP | NDA | Krishna Pada Majumder | 284,082 | 35.40% | 112,301 | ||||
| 16 | Mathurapur (SC) | CPI(M) | LF | Radhika Ranjan Pramanik | 382,962 | 46.78% | AITC | NDA | Gobind Chandra Naskar | 331,237 | 40.46% | 51,725 | ||||
| 17 | Diamond Harbour | CPI(M) | LF | Samik Lahiri | 402,761 | 47.70% | AITC | NDA | Sardar Amjad Ali | 331,598 | 42.23% | 71,163 | ||||
| 18 | Jadavpur | AITC | NDA | Krishna Bose | 485,366 | 48.97% | CPI(M) | LF | Kanti Ganguly | 418,601 | 42.23% | 66,765 | ||||
| 19 | Barrackpore | CPI(M) | LF | Tarit Baran Topdar | 399,269 | 48.06% | AITC | NDA | Jayanta Bhattacharya | 358,494 | 43.15% | 40,775 | ||||
| 20 | Dum Dum | BJP | NDA | Tapan Sikdar | 614,471 | 51.59% | CPI(M) | LF | Anil Bhattacharya | 479,910 | 40.29% | 134,561 | ||||
| 21 | Calcutta North West | AITC | NDA | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | 206,684 | 46.60% | CPI(M) | LF | Rajdeo Goala | 112,514 | 25.37% | 94,170 | ||||
| 22 | Calcutta North East | AITC | NDA | Ajit Kumar Panja | 297,491 | 45.17% | CPI(M) | LF | Mohammed Salim | 255,917 | 38.86% | 41,574 | ||||
| 23 | Calcutta South | AITC | NDA | Mamata Banerjee | 469,103 | 58.26% | CPI(M) | LF | Subhankar Chakraborty | 255,095 | 31.68% | 214,008 | ||||
| 24 | Howrah | CPI(M) | LF | Swadesh Chakraborty | 490,537 | 49.98% | AITC | NDA | Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar | 387,088 | 39.44% | 103,449 | ||||
| 25 | Uluberia | CPI(M) | LF | Hannan Mollah | 399,397 | 49.40% | AITC | NDA | Sudipta Roy | 331,820 | 41.04% | 67,577 | ||||
| 26 | Serampore | AITC | NDA | Akbar Ali Khondkar | 411,406 | 45.14% | CPI(M) | LF | Sudarsan Roy Chaudhary | 363,642 | 39.90% | 47,764 | ||||
| 27 | Hooghly | CPI(M) | LF | Rupchand Pal | 440,674 | 47.94% | AITC | NDA | Tapan Dasgupta | 428,189 | 46.58% | 12,485 | ||||
| 28 | Arambagh | CPI(M) | LF | Anil Basu | 503,920 | 53.98% | BJP | NDA | Chunilal Chakraborty | 387,199 | 41.48% | 116,721 | ||||
| 29 | Panskura | CPI | LF | Geeta Mukherjee | 401,431 | 49.19% | AITC | NDA | Gouri Ghosh | 354,573 | 43.45% | 46,858 | ||||
| 30 | Tamluk | CPI(M) | LF | Lakshman Chandra Seth | 455,168 | 50.04% | AITC | NDA | Nirmalendu Bhattacharya | 400,342 | 44.01% | 54,826 | ||||
| 31 | Contai | AITC | NDA | Nitish Sengupta | 395,048 | 48.45% | CPI(M) | LF | Sudhir Kumar Giri | 382,915 | 46.96% | 12,133 | ||||
| 32 | Medinipur | CPI | LF | Indrajit Gupta | 414,545 | 48.63% | BJP | NDA | Manronjan Dutta | 385,772 | 45.25% | 28,773 | ||||
| 33 | Jhargram (ST) | CPI(M) | LF | Rupchand Murmu | 402,325 | 50.82% | AITC | NDA | Dakhin Murmu | 293,644 | 37.09% | 108,691 | ||||
| 34 | Purulia | AIFB | LF | Bir Singh Mahato | 351,143 | 51.55% | BJP | NDA | Tapati Mahato | 176,273 | 25.88% | 174,870 | ||||
| 35 | Bankura | CPI(M) | LF | Basudeb Acharia | 381,720 | 52.73% | IND | NDA | Natabar Bagdi | 274,722 | 37.95% | 106,998 | ||||
| 36 | Vishnupur (SC) | CPI(M) | LF | Sandhya Bauri | 483,084 | 57.89% | AITC | NDA | Abhibas Duley | 301,514 | 36.13% | 181,570 | ||||
| 37 | Durgapur (SC) | CPI(M) | LF | Sunil Khan | 461,940 | 53.15% | BJP | NDA | Anil Kumar Saha | 343,977 | 39.58% | 117,963 | ||||
| 38 | Asansol | CPI(M) | LF | Bikash Chowdhury | 377,265 | 46.27% | AITC | NDA | Moloy Ghatak | 339,401 | 41.63% | 37,864 | ||||
| 39 | Burdwan | CPI(M) | LF | Nikhilananda Sar | 598,170 | 61.56% | BJP | NDA | Anup Mukherjee | 296,487 | 30.51% | 301,683 | ||||
| 40 | Katwa | CPI(M) | LF | Mahboob Zahedi | 461,502 | 50.25% | AITC | NDA | Amal Kumar Dutta | 353,140 | 38.45% | 108,362 | ||||
| 41 | Bolpur | CPI(M) | LF | Somnath Chatterjee | 464,199 | 59.36% | AITC | NDA | Suniti Chhataraj | 277,810 | 35.53% | 186,389 | ||||
| 42 | Birbhum (SC) | CPI(M) | LF | Ram Chandra Dome | 373,687 | 51.65% | BJP | NDA | Madan Lal Choudhury | 216,531 | 29.93% | 157,156 | ||||
| 29 | 10 | 3 |
| LF | NDA | UPA |
| 21 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| CPI(M) | AITC | INC | RSP | CPI | BJP | AIFB |
| Parties/ Alliance | Popular vote | Seats | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Votes | % | ±pp | Contested | Won | +/− | ||||
| LF | CPI(M) | 12,553,991 | 35.57% | 32 | 21 | ||||
| RSP | 1,500,653 | 4.25% | 4 | 3 | |||||
| CPI | 1,223,879 | 3.47% | 3 | 3 | |||||
| AIFB | 1,215,911 | 3.45% | 3 | 2 | |||||
| Total | 16,494,434 | 46.74% | 42 | 29 | |||||
| NDA | AITC | 9,189,631 | 26.04% | 28 | 8 | ||||
| BJP | 3,928,424 | 11.13% | 13 | 2 | |||||
| IND | 274,722 | 0.78% | New | 1 | 0 | New | |||
| Total | 13,118,055 | 37.91% | 41 | 10 | |||||
| UPA | INC | 4,688,932 | 13.29% | 41 | 3 | ||||
| JKP(N) | 101,441 | 0.29% | 2 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 4,790,373 | 13.58% | 43 | 3 | |||||
| Others | 223,427 | 0.66% | 60 | 0 | |||||
| IND | 391,954 | 1.11% | 121 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 35,292,965 | 100% | - | 309 | 42 | - | |||
| Party | Assembly segments | Position in Assembly (as of 2001 election) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 135 | 143 | |
| Trinamool Congress | 65 | 60 | |
| Revolutionary Socialist Party | 22 | 17 | |
| Indian National Congress | 20 | 26 | |
| Communist Party of India | 18 | 7 | |
| Bharatiya Janata Party | 17 | 0 | |
| All India Forward Bloc | 14 | 25 | |
| Others | 3 | 16 | |
| Total | 294 | ||