REPUBLIC OF INDIA LOK SABHA ELECTIONS OF SEPTEMBER - OCTOBER 1999 ==================================================================== Polling took place between 5 September and 3 October 1999 WEST BENGAL ==================================================================== STATE SUMMARY ==================================================================== Party Votes % Seats -------------------------------------------------------------------- All-India Forward Bloc (AIFB) 1,215,911 03.4 2 All-India Trinamool Congress (AITC) 9,189,631 26.0 8 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) 3,928,424 11.1 2 Communist Party of India (CPI) 1,223,879 03.5 3 Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) 12,553,991 35.6 21 Indian National Congress (INC) 4,688,932 13.3 3 Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) 1,500,653 04.2 3 Others 991,544 02.8 - -------------------------------------------------------------------- 35,292,965 42 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Constituencies and MPs elected -------------------------------------------------------------------- Alipurduars (ST): Joachim Baxla (RSP) Arambagh: Anil Basu (CPM) Asansol: Bikash Chowdhury (CPM) Balurghat (SC): Barman Ranen (RSP) Bankura: Acharia Basudeb (CPM) Barasat: Dr Ranjit Kumar Panja (AITC) Barrackpore: Tarit Baran Topdar (CPM) Basirhat: Ajoy Chakraborty (CPI) Berhampur: Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury (INC) Birbhum (SC): Ram Chandra Dome (CPM) Bolpur: Somnath Chatterjee (CPM) Burdwan: Sar Nikhilananda (CPM) Calcutta North East: Ajit Kumar Panja (AITC) Calcutta North West: Sudip Bandyopadhyay (AITC) Calcutta South: Mamata Banerjee (AITC) Contai: Neetish Sengupta (AITC) Cooch Behar (SC): Amar Roy Pradhan (AIFB) Darjeeling: S P Lepcha (CPM) Diamond Harbour: Samik Lahiri (CPM) Dum Dum: Tapan Sikdar (BJP) Durgapur (SC): Sunil Khan (CPM) Hooghly: Rupchand Pal (CPM) Howrah: Swadesh Chakraborty (CPM) Jadavpur: Krishna Bose (AITC) Jalpaiguri: Minati Sen (CPM) Janjipur: Abul Hasnat Khan (CPM) Jhargram (ST): Rupchand Murmu (CPM) Joynagar (SC): Sanat Kumar Mondal (RSP) Katwa: Mahboob Zahedi (CPM) Krishnagar: Satyabrata Mookherjee (BJP) Malda: Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury (INC) Mathurapur (SC): Radhika Ranjan Pramanik (CPM) Midnapore: Indrajit Gupta (CPI) Murshidabad: Moinul Hassan (CPM) Nabadwip (SC): Ananda Mohan Biswas (AITC) Panskura: Gita Mukherjee (CPI) Purulia: Birsingh Mahato (AIFB) Raiganj: Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi (INC) Serampore: Akbor Ali Khandoker (AITC) Tamluk: Lakshman Chandra Seth (CPM) Uluberia: Hannan Mollah (CPM) Vishnupur (SC): Sandhya Bauri (CPM) VOTING BY CONSTITUENCY ===================================================================== COOCH BEHAR (SC) ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Amar Roy Pradhan AIFB 443,148 49.69 Ambika Charan Ray AITC 334,983 37.56 Sabita Roy INC 90,378 10.13 4 others 23,320 02.61 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 891,829 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ALIPURDUARS (ST) ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Joachim Baxla RSP 389,919 51.25 Dhirendra Narjinarai BJP 236,786 31.12 Basanti Baraik INC 119,309 15.68 3 others 14,848 01.95 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 760,862 -------------------------------------------------------------------- JALPAIGURI ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Minati Sen CPM 405,785 48.78 Kalyan Chakraborty AITC 296,848 35.69 Girija Sankar Roy INC 99,994 12.02 6 others 29,168 03.51 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 831,795 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DARJEELING ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- S P Lepcha CPM 256,826 44.24 Nar Bahadur Khatiwara INC 144,857 24.96 Tarun Roy AITC 127,603 21.98 4 others 51,185 08.82 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 580,471 -------------------------------------------------------------------- RAIGANJ ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi INC 409,331 46.74 Subrata Mukherjee CPM 334,076 38.15 Biplab Mitra AITC 110,049 12.57 4 others 22,260 02.54 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 875,716 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BALURGHAT (SC) ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Barman Ranen RSP 375,669 44.67 Subhash Chandra Barman BJP 312,748 37.19 Bikash Barman INC 143,034 17.01 2 others 9,447 01.12 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 840,898 -------------------------------------------------------------------- MALDA ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury INC 325,833 40.22 Sailen Sarkar CPM 301,280 37.19 Muzaffar Khan BJP 172,575 21.30 9 others 10,508 01.29 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 810,196 -------------------------------------------------------------------- JANGIPUR ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Abul Hasnat Khan CPM 352,580 45.47 Mainul Haque INC 291,263 37.56 Syed Mustaque Murshed AITC 120,770 15.57 4 others 10,880 01.40 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 775,493 -------------------------------------------------------------------- MURSHIDABAD ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Moinul Hassan CPM 391,366 47.30 Mannan Hossain INC 268,006 32.39 Sagir Hossain AITC 142,275 17.20 7 others 25,748 03.11 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 827,395 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BERHAMPORE ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury INC 434,073 46.86 Pramothes Mukherjee RSP 338,682 36.56 Sabyasachi Bagchi BJP 134,569 14.53 8 others 19,051 02.06 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 926,375 -------------------------------------------------------------------- KRISHNAGAR ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Satyabrata Mookherjee BJP 366,954 43.82 Dilip Chakraborty CPM 344,720 41.16 Ashim Saha INC 106,137 12.67 4 others 19,613 02.34 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 837,424 -------------------------------------------------------------------- NABADWIP (SC) ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ananda Mohan Biswas AITC 459,319 45.84 Asim Bala CPM 420,184 41.93 Biswas Shashanka Shekhor INC 108,464 10.82 5 others 14,117 01.41 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,002,084 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BARASAT ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr Ranjit Kumar Panja AITC 518,520 50.28 Saral Deb AIFB 421,620 40.88 Ghosal Debi INC 76,751 07.44 6 others 14,394 01.39 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,031,285 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BASIRHAT ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ajoy Chakraborty CPI 407,903 47.64 M Nuruzzaman AITC 325,316 37.99 Abu Tayeb M Moazam Hossin INC 118,612 13.85 3 others 4,464 00.52 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 856,295 -------------------------------------------------------------------- JOYNAGAR (SC) ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sanat Kumar Mondal RSP 396,383 49.39 Krishna Pada Majumder BJP 284,082 35.40 Renu Pada Halder 74,016 09.22 Jagat Pada Sanpui INC 46,173 05.75 3 others 1,875 00.23 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 802,529 -------------------------------------------------------------------- MATHURAPUR (SC) ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Radhika Ranjan Pramanik CPM 382,962 46.78 Gobinda Chandra Naskar AITC 331,237 40.46 Monoranjan Halder INC 89,719 10.96 1 other 14,691 01.79 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 818,609 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DIAMOND HARBOUR ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Samik Lahiri CPM 402,761 47.70 Sardar Amjad Ali AITC 331,598 39.27 Sk Daulat Ali INC 106,344 12.59 4 others 3,639 00.43 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 844,342 -------------------------------------------------------------------- JADAVPUR ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Krishna Bose AITC 485,366 48.97 Kanti Ganguly CPM 418,601 42.23 Dr Maya Ghose INC 79,672 08.04 5 others 7,559 00.76 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 991,198 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BARRACKPORE ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tarit Baran Topdar CPM 399,269 48.06 Jayanta Bhattacharya AITC 358,494 43.15 Ashok Sukla INC 59,732 07.19 7 others 13,224 01.59 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 830,719 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DUM DUM ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tapan Sikdar BJP 614,471 51.59 Anil Bhattacharya CPM 479,910 40.29 Ramesh Bhattacharjee INC 85,648 07.19 7 others 11,085 00.93 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 1,191,114 -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALCUTTA NORTH WEST ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sudip Bandyopadhyay AITC 206,684 46.60 Rajdeo Goala CPM 112,514 25.37 Siddhartha Sankar Ray INC 106,430 24.00 10 others 17,858 04.03 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 443,486 -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALCUTTA NORTH EAST ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ajit Kumar Panja AITC 297,491 45.17 Mohamed Salim CPM 255,917 38.86 Tapas Roy INC 84,516 12.83 6 others 20,707 03.14 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 658,631 -------------------------------------------------------------------- CALCUTTA SOUTH ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mamata Banerjee AITC 469,103 58.26 Subhankar Chakraborty CPM 255,095 31.68 Partha Roy Chowdhury INC 51,735 06.43 7 other 29,188 03.62 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 805,121 -------------------------------------------------------------------- HOWRAH ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Swadesh Chakraborty CPM 490,537 49.98 Dr Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar AITC 387,088 39.44 Dr Subhash Chandra Bandyopadhyay INC 90,592 09.23 15 others 13,182 01.34 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 981,399 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ULUBERIA ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Hannan Mollah CPM 399,397 49.40 Dr Sudipta Roy AITC 331,820 41.04 Sisir Kumar Sen INC 71,978 08.90 7 others 5,369 00.66 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 808,564 -------------------------------------------------------------------- SERAMPORE ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Akbor Ali Khandoker AITC 411,406 45.14 Sudarsan Roy Chaudhury CPM 363,642 39.90 Pradip Bhattacharya INC 133,155 14.61 2 others 3,103 00.34 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 911,306 -------------------------------------------------------------------- HOOGHLY ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Rupchand Pal CPM 440,674 47.94 Tapan Das Gupta AITC 428,189 46.58 Dilip Nath INC 48,068 05.23 2 others 2,319 00.25 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 919,250 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ARAMBAGH ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Anil Basu CPM 503,920 53.98 Chunilal Chakraborty BJP 387,199 41.48 2 others 42,381 04.54 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 933,500 -------------------------------------------------------------------- PANSKURA ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Gita Mukherjee CPI 401,431 49.19 Gouri Ghosh AITC 354,573 43.45 Rajani Kanta Doloi INC 59,147 07.25 1 other 979 00.12 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 816,130 -------------------------------------------------------------------- TAMLUK ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Lakshman Chandra Seth CPM 455,168 50.04 Nirmalendu Bhattacharjee AITC 400,342 44.01 4 others 54,172 05.95 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 909,682 -------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTAI ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Neetish Sengupta AITC 395,048 48.45 Sudhir Giri CPM 382,915 46.96 5 others 37,485 04.59 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 815,448 -------------------------------------------------------------------- MIDNAPORE ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Indrajit Gupta CPI 414,545 48.63 Manoranjon Dutta BJP 385,772 45.25 Samir Roy INC 47,013 05.51 2 others 5,162 00.61 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 852,492 -------------------------------------------------------------------- JHARGRAM (ST) ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Rupchand Murmu CPM 402,325 50.82 Dakhin Murmu AITC 293,644 37.09 Murmu Biswanath 84,332 10.65 2 others 11,399 01.44 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 791,700 -------------------------------------------------------------------- PURULIA ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Birsingh Mahato AIFB 351,143 51.55 Tapati Mahato BJP 176,273 25.88 Nepal Mahata INC 139,345 20.46 6 others 14,435 02.12 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 681,196 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BANKURA ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Acharia Basudeb CPM 381,720 52.73 Natabar Bagdi 274,722 37.95 6 others 67,487 09.32 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 723,929 -------------------------------------------------------------------- VISHNUPUR (SC) ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sandhya Bauri CPM 483,084 57.89 Adhibas Duley AITC 301,514 36.13 3 others 49,904 05.98 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 834,502 -------------------------------------------------------------------- DURGAPUR (SC) ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunil Khan CPM 461,940 53.15 Anil Kumar Saha BJP 343,977 39.58 Haradhan Mondal INC 58,407 06.72 2 others 4,767 00.55 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 869,091 -------------------------------------------------------------------- ASANSOL ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Bikash Chowdhury CPM 377,265 46.27 Ajit Ghatak AITC 339,401 41.63 Manik Upadhyay INC 89,261 10.95 4 others 9,365 01.15 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 815,292 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BURDWAN ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Sar Nikhilananda CPM 598,170 61.56 Anup Mukherjee BJP 296,487 30.51 Rajkrishna Dawn INC 67,096 06.90 2 others 10,001 01.03 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 971,754 -------------------------------------------------------------------- KATWA ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mahboob Zahedi CPM 461,502 50.25 Amal Kumar Dutta AITC 353,140 38.45 Tuhin Samanta INC 91,204 09.93 3 others 12,503 01.36 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 918,349 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BOLPUR ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Somnath Chatterjee CPM 464,199 59.36 Suniti Chattaraj AITC 277,810 35.53 2 others 39,945 05.11 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 781,954 -------------------------------------------------------------------- BIRBHUM (SC) ==================================================================== Candidate Party Votes % -------------------------------------------------------------------- Ram Chandra Dome CPM 373,687 51.65 Dr Madan Lal Choudhury BJP 216,531 29.93 Asit Kumar Mal INC 126,305 17.46 2 others 7,037 00.97 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Total 723,560 --------------------------------------------------------------------