1999 Indian general election in West Bengal explained

Election Name:	1999 Indian general election in West Bengal
Country:	India
Type:	Parliamentary
Ongoing:	no
Turnout:	75.05%^[1] (4.22 pp)
Previous Election:	1998
Previous Year:	1998
Next Election:	2004
Next Year:	2004
Election Date:	1 October 1999^[2]
Seats For Election:	All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Outgoing Members:	List of members of the 12th Lok Sabha#West Bengal
Elected Members:	List of members of the 13th Lok Sabha#West Bengal
Party1:	Communist Party of India (Marxist)
Leader1:	Anil Biswas
Last Election1:	24
Percentage1:	35.57
Seats1:	21
Party2:	All India Trinamool Congress
Leader2:	Mamata Banerjee
Last Election2:	7
Percentage2:	26.04
Seats2:	8
Party3:	Indian National Congress
Leader3:	A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury
Last Election3:	1
Percentage3:	13.29
Seats3:	3
Party4:	Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
Leader4:	Manoj Bhattacharya
Last Election4:	4
Percentage4:	4.25
Seats4:	3
Party5:	Communist Party of India
Leader5:	Manju Kumar Majumdar
Last Election5:	3
Percentage5:	3.47
Seats5:	3
Party6:	Bharatiya Janata Party
Leader6:	Tapan Sikdar
Last Election6:	2
Percentage6:	11.13
Seats6:	2
Party7:	All India Forward Bloc
Leader7:	Debabrata Biswas
Last Election7:	2
Percentage7:	3.45
Seats7:	2
Map:	File:Westbengalen Wahlkreise Lok Sabha.svg
Prime Minister
Before Election:	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Before Party:	Bharatiya Janata Party
Posttitle:	Prime Minister after
After Election:	Atal Bihari Vajpayee
After Party:	Bharatiya Janata Party

The 1999 Indian general election in West Bengal was held on 1 October to elect 42 members of the 12th Lok Sabha.

Election schedule

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

Parties and alliances

Party		Flag	Symbol	Leader	Contesting Seats
	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	Contesting Seats
	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	Contesting Seats
	Indian National Congress			A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury	41^[16]
	Jharkhand Party (Naren)			Naren Hansda	2^[17]
Total					42+1

Others

Results

Results by constituency

Constituency		Winner							Runner Up							Margin
No.	Name	Party		Alliance		Candidate	Votes	%	Party		Alliance		Candidate	Votes	%
1	Cooch Behar (SC)			Amar Roy Pradhan	443,148	49.69%			Ambika Charan Choudhury	334,983	37.56%	108,165
2	Alipurduars (ST)			Joachim Baxla	389,919	51.25%			Dhirendra Narjinarai	236,786	31.12%	153,133
3	Jalpaiguri			Minati Sen	405,785	48.78%			Kalyan Chakraborty	296,848	35.69%	108,937
4	Darjeeling			S. P. Lepcha	256,826	44.24%			Nar Bahadur Khatiwada	144,857	24.96%	111,969
5	Raiganj			Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi	409,331	46.74%			Subrata Mukherjee	334,076	38.15%	75,255
6	Balurghat (SC)			Ranen Barman	375,669	44.67%			Subhash Chandra Barman	312,748	37.19%	62,921
7	Malda			A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury	325,833	40.22%			Sailen Sarkar	301,280	37.19%	24,553
8	Jangipur			Abul Hasnat Khan	352,580	45.47%			Mainul Haque	291,263	37.56%	61,317
9	Murshidabad			Moinul Hassan	391,366	47.30%			Abdul Mannan Hossain	268,006	32.39%	123,360
10	Baharampur			Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury	434,073	46.86%			Promothes Mukherjee	338,682	36.56%	95,391
11	Krishnagar			Satyabrata Mookherjee	366,954	43.82%			Dilip Chakraborty	344,720	41.16%	22,234
12	Nabadwip (SC)			Ananda Mohan Biswas	459,319	45.84%			Asim Bala	420,184	41.93%	39,135
13	Barasat			Ranjit Kumar Panja	518,520	50.28%			Saral Deb	421,620	40.88%	96,900
14	Basirhat			Ajay Chakraborty	407,903	47.64%			M. Nuruzzaman	325,316	37.99%	82,587
15	Jaynagar (SC)			Sanat Kumar Mandal	396,383	49.39%			Krishna Pada Majumder	284,082	35.40%	112,301
16	Mathurapur (SC)			Radhika Ranjan Pramanik	382,962	46.78%			Gobind Chandra Naskar	331,237	40.46%	51,725
17	Diamond Harbour			Samik Lahiri	402,761	47.70%			Sardar Amjad Ali	331,598	42.23%	71,163
18	Jadavpur			Krishna Bose	485,366	48.97%			Kanti Ganguly	418,601	42.23%	66,765
19	Barrackpore			Tarit Baran Topdar	399,269	48.06%			Jayanta Bhattacharya	358,494	43.15%	40,775
20	Dum Dum			Tapan Sikdar	614,471	51.59%			Anil Bhattacharya	479,910	40.29%	134,561
21	Calcutta North West			Sudip Bandyopadhyay	206,684	46.60%			Rajdeo Goala	112,514	25.37%	94,170
22	Calcutta North East			Ajit Kumar Panja	297,491	45.17%			Mohammed Salim	255,917	38.86%	41,574
23	Calcutta South			Mamata Banerjee	469,103	58.26%			Subhankar Chakraborty	255,095	31.68%	214,008
24	Howrah			Swadesh Chakraborty	490,537	49.98%			Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar	387,088	39.44%	103,449
25	Uluberia			Hannan Mollah	399,397	49.40%			Sudipta Roy	331,820	41.04%	67,577
26	Serampore			Akbar Ali Khondkar	411,406	45.14%			Sudarsan Roy Chaudhary	363,642	39.90%	47,764
27	Hooghly			Rupchand Pal	440,674	47.94%			Tapan Dasgupta	428,189	46.58%	12,485
28	Arambagh			Anil Basu	503,920	53.98%			Chunilal Chakraborty	387,199	41.48%	116,721
29	Panskura			Geeta Mukherjee	401,431	49.19%			Gouri Ghosh	354,573	43.45%	46,858
30	Tamluk			Lakshman Chandra Seth	455,168	50.04%			Nirmalendu Bhattacharya	400,342	44.01%	54,826
31	Contai			Nitish Sengupta	395,048	48.45%			Sudhir Kumar Giri	382,915	46.96%	12,133
32	Medinipur			Indrajit Gupta	414,545	48.63%			Manronjan Dutta	385,772	45.25%	28,773
33	Jhargram (ST)			Rupchand Murmu	402,325	50.82%			Dakhin Murmu	293,644	37.09%	108,691
34	Purulia			Bir Singh Mahato	351,143	51.55%			Tapati Mahato	176,273	25.88%	174,870
35	Bankura			Basudeb Acharia	381,720	52.73%			Natabar Bagdi	274,722	37.95%	106,998
36	Vishnupur (SC)			Sandhya Bauri	483,084	57.89%			Abhibas Duley	301,514	36.13%	181,570
37	Durgapur (SC)			Sunil Khan	461,940	53.15%			Anil Kumar Saha	343,977	39.58%	117,963
38	Asansol			Bikash Chowdhury	377,265	46.27%			Moloy Ghatak	339,401	41.63%	37,864
39	Burdwan			Nikhilananda Sar	598,170	61.56%			Anup Mukherjee	296,487	30.51%	301,683
40	Katwa			Mahboob Zahedi	461,502	50.25%			Amal Kumar Dutta	353,140	38.45%	108,362
41	Bolpur			Somnath Chatterjee	464,199	59.36%			Suniti Chhataraj	277,810	35.53%	186,389
42	Birbhum (SC)			Ram Chandra Dome	373,687	51.65%			Madan Lal Choudhury	216,531	29.93%	157,156

Results by alliance or party

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%	0.16 pp	32	21	3
	RSP	1,500,653	4.25%	0.23 pp	4	3	1
	CPI	1,223,879	3.47%	0.17 pp	3	3
	AIFB	1,215,911	3.45%	0.15 pp	3	2
Total		16,494,434	46.74%	0.36 pp	42	29	4
NDA		AITC	9,189,631	26.04%	1.61 pp	28	8	1
	BJP	3,928,424	11.13%	0.93 pp	13	2	1
	IND	274,722	0.78%	New	1	0	New
Total		13,118,055	37.91%	1.32 pp	41	10	2
UPA		INC	4,688,932	13.29%	1.91 pp	41	3	2
	JKP(N)	101,441	0.29%	0.21 pp	2	0
Total		4,790,373	13.58%	2.12 pp	43	3	2
	Others			223,427	0.66%	0.37 pp	60	0
	IND			391,954	1.11%	0.07 pp	121	0
Total				35,292,965	100%	-	309	42	-

See also

• Politics of West Bengal
• 1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
• 2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

Notes and References

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