WEST BENGAL · 1998
Seats42
Electors4.68 Cr
Votes polled3.71 Cr
Median turnout80.9%
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Party standings
Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)
24
of 42 seats · 57.1%
majority
Communist Party Of India (MARXIST)
24
West Bengal Trinamool Congress
7
Revolutionary Socialist Party
4
Communist Party Of India
3
All India Forward Bloc
2
Bharatiya Janta Party
1
Indian National Congress
1
Every seat
| # | Constituency | Winner | Party | Votes | Margin | Margin % | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cooch BeharSC | Amar Roypradhan | AIFB | 916,783 | 123,166 | 13.4 | 83.6 |
| 2 | AlipurduarsST | Joachim Baxla | RSP | 827,362 | 195,599 | 23.6 | 80.8 |
| 3 | JalpaiguriSC | Minati Sen | CPIM | 887,722 | 174,975 | 19.7 | 81.8 |
| 4 | Darjeeling | Ananda Pathak | CPIM | 641,281 | 122,556 | 19.1 | 51.8 |
| 5 | Raiganj | Subrata Mukherjee | CPIM | 898,301 | 6,281 | 0.7 | 79.8 |
| 6 | Balurghat | Ranen Barman | RSP | 892,146 | 172,175 | 19.3 | 82.0 |
| 7 | Malda | Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury | INC | 846,069 | 49,082 | 5.8 | 82.1 |
| 8 | Jangipur | Abul Hasnat Khan | CPIM | 840,406 | 72,501 | 8.6 | 78.5 |
| 9 | Murshidabad | Moinul Hassan | CPIM | 939,684 | 190,466 | 20.3 | 81.4 |
| 10 | Berhampore | Promothes Mukherjee | RSP | 881,091 | 123,369 | 14.0 | 74.0 |
| 11 | Krishnagar | Ajoy Mukhopadhyay | CPIM | 897,928 | 40,672 | 4.5 | 84.1 |
| 12 | Nabadwip | Asim Bala | CPIM | 1,089,650 | 41,154 | 3.8 | 83.9 |
| 13 | BarasatSC | Dr Ranjit Kumar Panja | WBTC | 1,070,946 | 66,707 | 6.2 | 84.1 |
| 14 | BasirhatSC | Ajay Chakraborty | CPI | 882,985 | 120,076 | 13.6 | 83.8 |
| 15 | Joynagar | Sanat Kumar Mandal | RSP | 858,356 | 176,061 | 20.5 | 78.0 |
| 16 | Mathurapur | Radhika Ranjan Pramanik | CPIM | 860,017 | 101,876 | 11.8 | 81.0 |
| 17 | Diamond Harbour | Samik Lahiri | CPIM | 896,052 | 60,956 | 6.8 | 79.8 |
| 18 | Jadavpur | Krishna Bose | WBTC | 1,067,448 | 78,201 | 7.3 | 77.4 |
| 19 | BarrackporeSC | Tarit Baran Topdar | CPIM | 846,373 | 27,957 | 3.3 | 82.6 |
| 20 | Dum DumSC | Tapan Sikdar | BJP | 1,262,384 | 137,405 | 10.9 | 80.9 |
| 21 | Calcutta North West | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | WBTC | 469,378 | 73,483 | 15.7 | 67.5 |
| 22 | Calcutta North East | Ajit Kumar Panja | WBTC | 668,942 | 64,872 | 9.7 | 73.5 |
| 23 | Calcutta South | Mamata Banerjee | WBTC | 877,430 | 224,081 | 25.5 | 74.4 |
| 24 | Howrah | Dr Bikram Sarkar | WBTC | 1,027,782 | 6,535 | 0.6 | 75.2 |
| 25 | Uluberia | Hannan Mollah | CPIM | 862,695 | 113,530 | 13.2 | 79.6 |
| 26 | Serampore | Akbor Ali Khandoker | WBTC | 998,052 | 44,611 | 4.5 | 76.3 |
| 27 | Hooghly | Rupchand Pal | CPIM | 943,670 | 6,116 | 0.6 | 83.0 |
| 28 | Arambagh | Anil Basu | CPIM | 940,359 | 187,300 | 19.9 | 84.3 |
| 29 | PanskuraSC | Geeta Mukherjee | CPI | 831,273 | 179,543 | 21.6 | 86.0 |
| 30 | Tamluk | Lakshman Chandra Seth | CPIM | 942,965 | 87,952 | 9.3 | 86.6 |
| 31 | Contai | Sudhir Giri | CPIM | 834,197 | 74,858 | 9.0 | 85.8 |
| 32 | Midnapore | Indrajit Gupta | CPI | 874,531 | 275,519 | 31.5 | 80.8 |
| 33 | JhargramST | Murmu Rupchand | CPIM | 821,526 | 287,188 | 35.0 | 84.6 |
| 34 | Purulia | Bir Singh Mahat0 | AIFB | 747,609 | 157,137 | 21.0 | 75.1 |
| 35 | Bankura | Acharia Basudeb | CPIM | 766,640 | 111,583 | 14.6 | 74.5 |
| 36 | Vishnupur | Sandhya Bauri | CPIM | 862,530 | 173,241 | 20.1 | 81.1 |
| 37 | DurgapurSC | Khan Sunil | CPIM | 921,897 | 142,029 | 15.4 | 77.4 |
| 38 | AsansolSC | Bikash Chowdhury | CPIM | 883,829 | 26,149 | 3.0 | 71.1 |
| 39 | Burdwan | Sar Nikhilananda | CPIM | 997,277 | 272,253 | 27.3 | 83.8 |
| 40 | Katwa | Zahedi Mahboob | CPIM | 965,238 | 138,707 | 14.4 | 83.5 |
| 41 | BolpurSC | Somnath Chatterjee | CPIM | 803,382 | 251,092 | 31.3 | 78.6 |
| 42 | Birbhum | Dome Ram Chandra | CPIM | 789,909 | 161,512 | 20.4 | 76.8 |