1999 Indian general election in West Bengal

1999 Indian general election in West Bengal

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outgoing members elected members
All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Turnout	75.05% [2] ( 4.22 pp)
Party Leader Vote % Seats +/– CPI(M) Anil Biswas 35.57 21 −3 AITC Mamata Banerjee 26.04 8 +1 INC A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury 13.29 3 +2 RSP Manoj Bhattacharya 4.25 3 −1 CPI Manju Kumar Majumdar 3.47 3 0 BJP Tapan Sikdar 11.13 2 0 AIFB Debabrata Biswas 3.45 2 0 This lists parties that won seats. See the complete results below. Constituencies in the state. Constituencies in yellow and in pink represent seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes respectively. Prime Minister before Prime Minister after Atal Bihari Vajpayee BJP Atal Bihari Vajpayee BJP

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

   Left Front

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

   National Democratic Alliance

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

   United Progressive Alliance

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

Results

Results by constituency

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

Results by alliance or party

Seat Share by party

1. CPI(M) (50.0%)
2. AITC (19.1%)
3. INC (7.14%)
4. RSP (7.14%)
5. CPI (7.14%)
6. BJP (4.76%)
7. AIFB (4.76%)

Vote Share by party

1. CPI(M) (35.6%)
2. AITC (26.0%)
3. INC (13.3%)
4. BJP (11.1%)
5. RSP (4.25%)
6. CPI (3.47%)
7. AIFB (3.45%)
8. IND (1.89%)
9. Others (0.95%)

Seat Share by alliance

1. LF (69.0%)
2. NDA (23.8%)
3. UPA (7.14%)

Vote Share by alliance

1. LF (46.7%)
2. NDA (37.9%)
3. UPA (13.6%)
4. IND (1.11%)
5. Others (0.66%)

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

Assembly Segment wise lead

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

Notes

1. Friendly Contest on Vishnupur (SC) between JKP(N) and INC.
2. Friendly Contest on Vishnupur (SC) between JKP(N) and INC.
3. Friendly Contest on Vishnupur (SC) between JKP(N) and INC.

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