Lok Sabha General Election 1998
West Bengal
42 parliamentary constituencies — party tallies, map, and winners.
Party Wise Results
West Bengal — seats, contested & votes| Party | Seats won | Contested | Vote share | Total votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPM · Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 24 | 32 | 35.41% | 12,931,639 |
| WBTC · West Bengal Trinamool Congress | 7 | 29 | 24.43% | 8,920,583 |
| RSP · Revolutionary Socialist Party | 4 | 4 | 4.48% | 1,636,440 |
| CPI · Communist Party of India | 3 | 3 | 3.64% | 1,328,205 |
| FBL · Forward Bloc | 2 | 3 | 3.30% | 1,204,927 |
| INC · Indian National Congress | 1 | 39 | 15.20% | 5,551,456 |
| BJP · Bharatiya Janata Party | 1 | 14 | 10.20% | 3,724,662 |
| IND · Independent | 0 | 32 | 1.04% | 381,051 |
| FB(S) · Forward Bloc (Socialist) | 0 | 1 | 0.75% | 272,974 |
| JKP(N) · Jharkhand Party (Naren) | 0 | 2 | 0.50% | 181,018 |
| JMM · Jharkhand Mukti Morcha | 0 | 6 | 0.34% | 125,552 |
| BSP · Bahujan Samaj Party | 0 | 14 | 0.24% | 88,195 |
| MUL · Muslim League Kerala State Committee | 0 | 3 | 0.14% | 52,155 |
| RJD · Rashtriya Janata Dal | 0 | 3 | 0.13% | 46,156 |
| CPI(ML)(L) · Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist) (Liberation) | 0 | 4 | 0.09% | 31,294 |
| Total | 42 | — | 100% | 36,522,326 |
Party Wise Results
Seats won (Doughnut)West Bengal Constituency Map
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Party Wise Vote Share
Votes polled in West Bengal (Pie)Constituencies
Winner · vote share · margin| Constituency | Winner | Vote share | Margin over runner-up |
|---|---|---|---|
|
Cooch Behar
#1
|
Amar Roypradhan
Male
FBL
|
43.77% | 123,166 |
|
Alipurduars
#2
|
Joachim Baxla
Male
RSP
|
51.47% | 195,599 |
|
Jalpaiguri
#3
|
Minati Sen
Female
CPM
|
49.12% | 174,975 |
|
Darjeeling
#4
|
Ananda Pathak
Male
CPM
|
44.75% | 122,556 |
|
Raiganj
#5
|
Subrata Mukherjee
Male
CPM
|
39.76% | 6,281 |
|
Balurghat
#6
|
Ranen Barman
Male
RSP
|
48.90% | 172,175 |
|
Malda
#7
|
Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury
Male
INC
|
42.42% | 49,082 |
|
Jangipur
#8
|
Abul Hasnat Khan
Male
CPM
|
47.94% | 72,501 |
|
Murshidabad
#9
|
Moinul Hassan
Male
CPM
|
49.96% | 190,466 |
|
Berhampore
#10
|
Promothes Mukherjee
Male
RSP
|
44.46% | 123,369 |
|
Krishnagar
#11
|
Ajoy Mukhopadhyay
Male
CPM
|
42.03% | 40,672 |
|
Nabadwip
#12
|
Asim Bala
CPM
|
43.04% | 41,154 |
|
Barasat
#13
|
Dr Ranjit Kumar Panja
Male
WBTC
|
47.13% | 66,707 |
|
Basirhat
#14
|
Ajay Chakraborty
CPI
|
48.85% | 120,076 |
|
Joynagar
#15
|
Sanat Kumar Mandal
Male
RSP
|
48.48% | 176,061 |
|
Mathurapur
#16
|
Radhika Ranjan Pramanik
Male
CPM
|
46.50% | 101,876 |
|
Diamond Harbour
#17
|
Samik Lahiri
Male
CPM
|
45.97% | 60,956 |
|
Jadavpur
#18
|
Krishna Bose
Female
WBTC
|
48.88% | 78,201 |
|
Barrackpore
#19
|
Tarit Baran Topdar
CPM
|
46.01% | 27,957 |
|
Dum Dum
#20
|
Tapan Sikdar
Male
BJP
|
50.69% | 137,405 |
|
Calcutta North West
#21
|
Sudip Bandyopadhyay
Male
WBTC
|
49.07% | 73,483 |
|
Calcutta North East
#22
|
Ajit Kumar Panja
Male
WBTC
|
47.10% | 64,872 |
|
Calcutta South
#23
|
Mamata Banerjee
Female
WBTC
|
59.37% | 224,081 |
|
Howrah
#24
|
Dr Bikram Sarkar
Male
WBTC
|
43.18% | 6,535 |
|
Uluberia
#25
|
Hannan Mollah
CPM
|
47.50% | 113,530 |
|
Serampore
#26
|
Akbor Ali Khandoker
Male
WBTC
|
44.68% | 44,611 |
|
Hooghly
#27
|
Rupchand Pal
CPM
|
46.25% | 6,116 |
|
Arambagh
#28
|
Anil Basu
Male
CPM
|
56.15% | 187,300 |
|
Panskura
#29
|
Geeta Mukherjee
Female
CPI
|
54.88% | 179,543 |
|
Tamluk
#30
|
Lakshman Chandra Seth
CPM
|
51.24% | 87,952 |
|
Contai
#31
|
Sudhir Giri
Male
CPM
|
47.80% | 74,858 |
|
Midnapore
#32
|
Indrajit Gupta
Male
CPI
|
52.75% | 275,519 |
|
Jhargram
#33
|
Murmu Rupchand
Male
CPM
|
56.78% | 287,188 |
|
Purulia
#34
|
Bir Singh Mahat0
Male
FBL
|
51.26% | 157,137 |
|
Bankura
#35
|
Acharia Basudeb
Male
CPM
|
49.42% | 111,583 |
|
Vishnupur
#36
|
Sandhya Bauri
Female
CPM
|
56.79% | 173,241 |
|
Durgapur
#37
|
Khan Sunil
Male
CPM
|
51.81% | 142,029 |
|
Asansol
#38
|
Bikash Chowdhury
Male
CPM
|
41.09% | 26,149 |
|
Burdwan
#39
|
Sar Nikhilananda
Male
CPM
|
58.88% | 272,253 |
|
Katwa
#40
|
Zahedi Mahboob
Male
CPM
|
49.47% | 138,707 |
|
Bolpur
#41
|
Somnath Chatterjee
Male
CPM
|
59.55% | 251,092 |
|
Birbhum
#42
|
Dome Ram Chandra
Male
CPM
|
49.07% | 161,512 |