Rashbehari AvenueAssembly by-election result, 1998
Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay (AITC) won Rashbehari Avenue in the 1998 assembly by-election with 53.4% of the vote, beating Biplab Chatterjee (CPM) by 13,533 votes.
Seat boundaries were redrawn before the 1977 election. In 1972, seat no. 149 was Burtola. Seat boundaries were redrawn after 2006. From 2011, seat no. 149 is Kasba. See the seat history for this ground's earlier results.
Winner
A comfortable win — Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay won by 22.6%.
Seat history
All Candidates
8 candidates| # | Candidate | Party | Votes · %Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sobhandeb Chattopadhyay  AITC | AITC | 31,97953.4% |
| 2 | Biplab Chatterjee | 18,44630.8% | |
| 3 | Soumyadeep Basu | 9,05215.1% | |
| 4 | Kanika Mukherjee IND | IND | 1170.2% |
| 5 | Amalendu Ghosh IND | IND | 1050.2% |
| 6 | Kalyan Kumar Rakshit IND | IND | 740.1% |
| 7 | Samir Guha IND | IND | 440.1% |
| 8 | Mridula Mukherjee IND | IND | 240.0% |
Results are complete; affidavit details aren't available for this seat yet.
A comfortable margin, a two-to-three-way race.
How safe is this seat?
winning margin, share of votes
How many parties were really in the race?
AITC, CPM and INC took 99% of the votes.
Parties in the race 2.48 Effective number of parties — counts each party by its share of the vote.
How did the vote split?
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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