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Assam · PC 2 · 1999
Silchar
Winner — Lok Sabha 1999
Sontosh Mohan Dev
INC· INC
INC 55.5%BJP 37.4%11 others 7.1%
Votes
3,29,256
55.5% share
Winning margin
1,07,752
18.2% of votes
Total votes cast
5,92,867
Candidates
13
Seat history
All Candidates
13 total| # | Candidate | Party | Votes | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sontosh Mohan Dev | INC | 3,29,256 | 55.5% |
| 2 | Kabindra Purkayastha | NDA | 2,21,504 | 37.4% |
| 3 | Abdul Muhib Mazumder | IND | 29,060 | 4.9% |
| 4 | Subhash Mohan Deb | 5,737 | 1.0% | |
| 5 | Chittaranjan Suklabaidya | IND | 1,338 | 0.2% |
| 6 | Saumitra Nath | IND | 1,235 | 0.2% |
| 7 | Rajendra Kumar Sinha | IND | 1,181 | 0.2% |
| 8 | Amiya Kanti Das | IND | 1,000 | 0.2% |
| 9 | Kantimoy Deb | IND | 683 | 0.1% |
| 10 | Jowahar Lal Goala | IND | 581 | 0.1% |
| 11 | Narayan Choudhury | IND | 573 | 0.1% |
| 12 | Nazmul Haque Laskar | IND | 546 | 0.1% |
| 13 | Gopal Chakraborty | IND | 173 | 0.0% |
Affidavit details — declared assets, criminal cases and education — aren't available for this seat yet. The results above are complete; only the candidate-affidavit layer is missing.
High turnout (1st), a comfortable margin, a two-to-three-way race.
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How safe is this seat?
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safe18.2%
MORE COMPETITIVESAFER
mean 16.5% · min 2.1% · max 59.8%
How contested is turnout?
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92%
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1st of 14How crowded is the field?
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2.34
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7th of 14How much NOTA?
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0.6%
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13th of 14How often does it back the winner?
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neveralways
matches the ruling party
How did the vote split?
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2.34EFFECTIVE PARTIES
INC 55.5%BJP 37.4%OTH 7.1%
Who ran, on record?
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— NOT YET COMPUTEDThis seat number was reused from 2024. The district and local data on file describe the seat as contested from 2024, so they are not shown for earlier elections.