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. Alliance wise Structure 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

List of Candidates

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

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	-

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from West Bengal

SI No.	Name	Constituency	Designation	Department	From	To	Party
1	Mamata Banerjee	Calcutta South	Cabinet Minister	Railways	13 October 1999	16 March 2001		AITC
			Minister Without Portfolio		8 September 2003	9 January 2004
			Cabinet Minister	Mines	9 January 2004	22 May 2004
				Coal
2	Ajit Kumar Panja	Calcutta North East	Minister of State	External Affairs	13 October 1999	16 March 2001
3	Satyabrata Mookherjee	Krishnagar	Minister of State	Chemicals and Fertilizers	30 September 2000	1 July 2002		BJP
				Social Justice and Empowerment	1 July 2002	29 January 2003
				Planning; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; Statistics and Programme Implementation	29 January 2003	22 May 2004
				Commerce and Industry	5 June 2003	22 May 2004
4	Tapan Sikdar	Dum Dum	Minister of State	Communications and Information Technology	22 December 2001	1 July 2002
				Chemicals and Fertilizers	1 July 2002	29 January 2003
				Small Scale Industries	29 January 2003	22 May 2004
				Development of North Eastern Region

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

See also

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

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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