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West Bengal · Assembly Constituency 104

BaruipurAssembly by-election result, 1998

Sujan Chakraborty (CPM) won Baruipur in the 1998 assembly by-election with 55.2% of the vote, beating Arup Bhadra (AITC) by 23,292 votes.

Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1977 election. In 1972, seat no. 104 was Garden Reach. Seat boundaries were redrawn after 2006. From 2011, seat no. 104 is Naihati. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.

Winner

Sujan Chakraborty
CPM 55.2%AITC 38.3%4 others 6.5%
Votes
76,054
55.2% share
Winning margin
23,292
16.9% of votes
Candidates
6

A comfortable win — Sujan Chakraborty won by 16.9%.

Seat history

All Candidates

6 candidates
#CandidatePartyVotes · %
1
Sujan Chakraborty
76,05455.2%
2
Arup Bhadra
AITC
AITC
52,76238.3%
3
Rajen Paul
8,0835.9%
4
Abdus Sobhan Sarder
4560.3%
5
Arun Mondal
IND
IND
2010.1%
6
Pankaj Sardar
IND
IND
1740.1%

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A comfortable margin, an essentially two-way race.

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How safe is this seat?

SEAT
16.9%

winning margin, share of votes

How many parties were really in the race?

SEAT
Essentially two

CPM and AITC took 94% of the votes.

Parties in the race 2.20

How did the vote split?

SEAT
55.2%won by CPM
CPM 55.2%AITC 38.3%INC 5.9%Others 0.6%

This seat number was reused from 2011. The district data on file describe the seat as contested from 2011, so they are not shown for earlier elections.

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Who has won Baruipur, 1977–2006

  1. 1977HEMEN MAJUMDAR (CPM), margin 35.5%
  2. 1982HEMEN MOJUMDAR (CPM), margin 13.9%
  3. 1987HEMEN MOJUMDAR (CPM), margin 14.3%
  4. 1991SHOVAN DEV CHATTOPADHYAY (INC), margin 2.6%
  5. 1996SOBHAN DEB CHATTOPADHYAY (INC), margin 1.0%
  6. 2001ARUP BHADRA (AITC), margin 0.0%
  7. 2006RAHUL GHOSH (CPM), margin 2.3%