1999 Indian general election in West Bengal

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1999 Indian general election in West Bengal
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3 October 1999[1]
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All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha
Turnout75.05%[2] (Decrease 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.
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 3 October to elect 42 members of the 12th Lok Sabha.

Election schedule

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The polling schedule for the 1999 General Elections and State Assembly elections was announced by the Chief Election Commissioner on 11 July 1999.

Poll event Phase
V
Notification date 7 September 1999
Last date for filing nomination 14 September 1999
Scrutiny of nomination 15 September 1999
Last Date for withdrawal of nomination 17 September 1999
Date of poll 3 October 1999
Date of counting of votes/Result 6 October 1999

Parties and alliances

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  Left Front

Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested
Communist Party of India (Marxist) Anil Biswas 32[3]
Revolutionary Socialist Party Manoj Bhattacharya 4[4]
All India Forward Bloc Debabrata Biswas 3[5]
Communist Party of India Swapan Banerjee 3[6]
Total 42

  National Democratic Alliance

Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested
All India Trinamool Congress Mamata Banerjee 28[7]
Bharatiya Janata Party Tapan Sikdar 13[8]
Independent politician Natabar Bagdi 1[9]
Total 42

  United Progressive Alliance

Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested
Indian National Congress A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury 41[a][10]
Jharkhand Party (Naren) Naren Hansda 2[b][11]
Total 42+1[c]

Others

Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats contested
Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) Provash Ghosh 42

List of Candidates

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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

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Results by constituency

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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

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

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from West Bengal

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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

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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

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Notes

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  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.

References

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  2. ^ https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/4125-general-election-1999-vol-i-ii-iii/
  3. ^ https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/4125-general-election-1999-vol-i-ii-iii/
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