West Bengal · 1998
State seat map, party leadership, and constituency results.
- Seats
- 42
- Turnout
- 79.3%
- Electors
- 4,68,46,524
- Votes polled
- 3,71,34,095
- NOTA
- 0
- Leading party
- CPM
State map
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42 of 42 seats shown
Constituencies
| Constituency | Category | Winner | Runner-up | Vote share | Margin | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alipurduars | GEN | Joachim Baxla (RSP) | Dhirendra Narjinarai (BJP) | 51.5% | 1,95,599 (24.3%) | 80.8% |
| Arambagh | GEN | Anil Basu (CPM) | Chunilal Chakraborty (BJP) | 56.1% | 1,87,300 (20.2%) | 84.3% |
| Asansol | GEN | Bikash Chowdhury (CPM) | Ajit Kumar Ghaatak (moloy Ghaatak) (WBTC) | 41.1% | 26,149 (3.0%) | 71.1% |
| Balurghat | GEN | Ranen Barman (RSP) | Nani Gopal Roy (WBTC) | 48.9% | 1,72,175 (19.6%) | 82.0% |
| Bankura | GEN | Acharia Basudeb (CPM) | Sukumar Banerjee (BJP) | 49.4% | 1,11,583 (14.9%) | 74.5% |
| Barasat | GEN | Dr Ranjit Kumar Panja (WBTC) | Chitra Ghosh (FBL) | 47.1% | 66,707 (6.3%) | 84.1% |
| Barrackpore | GEN | Tarit Baran Topdar (CPM) | Adhikary Tarun (WBTC) | 46.0% | 27,957 (3.4%) | 82.6% |
| Basirhat | GEN | Ajay Chakraborty (CPI) | Dr Sudipto Roy (WBTC) | 48.9% | 1,20,076 (13.8%) | 83.8% |
| Berhampore | GEN | Promothes Mukherjee (RSP) | Colonel (retd) Sabyasachi Bagchi (BJP) | 44.5% | 1,23,369 (14.2%) | 74.0% |
| Birbhum | GEN | Dome Ram Chandra (CPM) | Dr Madan Lal Choudhury (BJP) | 49.1% | 1,61,512 (20.8%) | 76.8% |
| Bolpur | GEN | Somnath Chatterjee (CPM) | Gour Hari Chandra (WBTC) | 59.6% | 2,51,092 (31.8%) | 78.6% |
| Burdwan | GEN | Sar Nikhilananda (CPM) | Prof (smt) Santi Roy (BJP) | 58.9% | 2,72,253 (27.7%) | 83.8% |
| Calcutta North East | GEN | Ajit Kumar Panja (WBTC) | Prasanta Chatterjee (CPM) | 47.1% | 64,872 (9.8%) | 73.5% |
| Calcutta North West | GEN | Sudip Bandyopadhyay (WBTC) | Sarala Maheswari (CPM) | 49.1% | 73,483 (15.9%) | 67.5% |
| Calcutta South | GEN | Mamata Banerjee (WBTC) | Prasanta Sur (CPM) | 59.4% | 2,24,081 (26.4%) | 74.4% |
| Contai | GEN | Sudhir Giri (CPM) | Akhil Giri (WBTC) | 47.8% | 74,858 (9.1%) | 85.8% |
| Cooch Behar | SC | Amar Roypradhan (FBL) | Gobinda Roy (FB(S)) | 43.8% | 1,23,166 (13.6%) | 83.6% |
| Darjeeling | GEN | Ananda Pathak (CPM) | Prasanta Nandy (INC) | 44.8% | 1,22,556 (19.5%) | 51.8% |
| Diamond Harbour | GEN | Samik Lahiri (CPM) | Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar (WBTC) | 46.0% | 60,956 (6.9%) | 79.8% |
| Dum Dum | GEN | Tapan Sikdar (BJP) | Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee (CPM) | 50.7% | 1,37,405 (11.0%) | 80.9% |
| Durgapur | SC | Khan Sunil (CPM) | Ray Suryya (BJP) | 51.8% | 1,42,029 (15.7%) | 77.4% |
| Hooghly | GEN | Rupchand Pal (CPM) | Tapan Dasgupta (WBTC) | 46.2% | 6,116 (0.7%) | 83.0% |
| Howrah | GEN | Dr Bikram Sarkar (WBTC) | Swadesh Chakraborty (CPM) | 43.2% | 6,535 (0.6%) | 75.2% |
| Jadavpur | GEN | Krishna Bose (WBTC) | Malini Bhattacharya (CPM) | 48.9% | 78,201 (7.4%) | 77.4% |
| Jalpaiguri | SC | Minati Sen (CPM) | Kalyan Chakraborty (WBTC) | 49.1% | 1,74,975 (20.1%) | 81.8% |
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Party board
| Party | Seats won | Contested | Vote share | Total votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPM | 24 | 32 | 35.4% | 1,29,31,639 |
| WBTC | 7 | 29 | 24.4% | 89,20,583 |
| RSP | 4 | 4 | 4.5% | 16,36,440 |
| CPI | 3 | 3 | 3.6% | 13,28,205 |
| FBL | 2 | 3 | 3.3% | 12,04,927 |
| INC | 1 | 39 | 15.2% | 55,51,456 |
| BJP | 1 | 14 | 10.2% | 37,24,662 |
| IND | 0 | 97 | 1.0% | 3,81,051 |
| FB(S) | 0 | 1 | 0.7% | 2,72,974 |
| JKP(N) | 0 | 2 | 0.5% | 1,81,018 |
| JMM | 0 | 6 | 0.3% | 1,25,552 |
| BSP | 0 | 14 | 0.2% | 88,195 |
| MUL | 0 | 3 | 0.1% | 52,155 |
| RJD | 0 | 3 | 0.1% | 46,156 |
| CPI(ML)(L) | 0 | 4 | 0.1% | 31,294 |
| AMB | 0 | 5 | 0.0% | 10,954 |
| SJP(R) | 0 | 2 | 0.0% | 8,273 |
| SWJP | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 6,699 |
| INL | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 6,364 |
| LS | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 4,064 |
| SHS | 0 | 2 | 0.0% | 2,535 |
| TRMRPPI | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 2,503 |
| JKP | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 1,702 |
| AIIC(S) | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 845 |
| AJBP | 0 | 1 | 0.0% | 837 |
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