West Bengal, Lok Sabha election 1999
42 constituencies in West Bengal, 74.07% turnout.
Seats
42
Candidates
309
27 women, 5 elected
Turnout
74.07%
3.53 cr of 4.76 cr
Leading party
CPM
21 of 42 seats
Party performance
Ordered by seats won in West Bengal
| Party | Won | +/− | Contested | Votes | Share | Share +/− |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPMCommunist Party of India (Marxist) | 21 | -3 | 32 | 1,25,53,991 | 35.57% | +0.16 |
| AITCAll India Trinamool Congress | 8 | +8 | 28 | 91,89,631 | 26.04% | — |
| INCIndian National Congress | 3 | +2 | 41 | 46,88,932 | 13.29% | -1.91 |
| RSPRevolutionary Socialist Party | 3 | -1 | 4 | 15,00,653 | 4.25% | -0.23 |
| CPICommunist Party of India | 3 | 0 | 3 | 12,23,879 | 3.47% | -0.17 |
| BJPBharatiya Janata Party | 2 | +1 | 13 | 39,28,424 | 11.13% | +0.93 |
| FBLAll India Forward Bloc | 2 | 0 | 3 | 12,15,911 | 3.45% | +0.15 |
| INDIndependent | 0 | 0 | 122 | 6,66,676 | 1.89% | +0.85 |
| JKPNJKPN | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1,01,441 | 0.29% | -0.21 |
| BSPBahujan Samaj Party | 0 | 0 | 19 | 86,250 | 0.24% | 0.00 |
| CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L) | 0 | 0 | 6 | 36,276 | 0.10% | +0.02 |
| JMMJharkhand Mukti Morcha | 0 | 0 | 3 | 21,873 | 0.06% | -0.28 |
| NCPNationalist Congress Party | 0 | 0 | 10 | 19,517 | 0.06% | — |
| MULIndian Union Muslim League | 0 | 0 | 5 | 15,576 | 0.04% | -0.10 |
| AMBAMB | 0 | 0 | 4 | 10,872 | 0.03% | 0.00 |
| JPJP | 0 | 0 | 4 | 7,543 | 0.02% | — |
| SHSShiv Sena | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7,444 | 0.02% | +0.01 |
| SPSamajwadi Party | 0 | 0 | 2 | 6,219 | 0.02% | — |
| JD(S)JD(S) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 5,773 | 0.02% | — |
| RJDRashtriya Janata Dal | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3,510 | 0.01% | -0.12 |
| JKPJKP | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2,574 | 0.01% | 0.00 |
- CPM21 (50%)
- AITC8 (19%)
- INC3 (7%)
- RSP3 (7%)
- CPI3 (7%)
- BJP2 (5%)
- Others2 (5%)
- CPM21
- AITC8
- INC3
- RSP3
- CPI3
- BJP2
- Others2
- CPM21
- AITC8
- INC3
- RSP3
- CPI3
- BJP2
- FBL2
Constituency performance
From the 42 results in West Bengal
Closest contest
HOOGHLY
won by 12,485 (1.36%)
Biggest victory
BURDWAN
won by 3,01,683 (31.05%)
Highest turnout
TAMLUK
82.83%
Lowest turnout
DARJEELING
45.46%
Seat change
Against West Bengal's previous Lok Sabha election (1998), matched constituency-for-constituency
- Retained30 (71%)
- Changed hands12 (29%)
30 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 12 changed hands.
India’s constituencies have not been redrawn since the 2008 delimitation, so this compares the same seat boundary both times.
Vote share & turnout trend
West Bengal, every Lok Sabha election on record
VOTE SHARE
- CPM
- AITC
- INC
- RSP
TURNOUT
Constituency results
All 42 seats, alphabetical · showing 1–42 of 42
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | Turnout |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ALIPURDUARS | RSPJoachim Baxla | BJPDhirendra Narjinarai | 1,53,13320.13% | 73.2% |
| ARAMBAGH | CPMAnil Basu | BJPChunilal Chakraborty | 1,16,72112.50% | 81.6% |
| ASANSOL | CPMBikash Chowdhury | AITCAjit Ghatak (Moloy Ghatak) | 37,8644.64% | 64.4% |
| BALURGHAT | RSPBarman Ranen | BJPSubhash Ch. Barman | 62,9217.48% | 75.9% |
| BANKURA | CPMAcharia Basudeb | INDNatabar Bagdi | 1,06,99814.78% | 69.5% |
| BARASAT | AITCDr.Ranjit Kumar Panja | FBLSaral Deb | 96,9009.40% | 79.1% |
| BARRACKPORE | CPMTarit Baran Topdar | AITCJayanta Bhattacharya | 40,7754.91% | 79.9% |
| BASIRHAT | CPIAjoy Chakraborty | AITCM. Nuruzzaman | 82,5879.64% | 79.9% |
| BERHAMPORE | INCAdhir Ranjan Chowdhury | RSPPramothes Mukherjee | 95,39110.30% | 76.4% |
| BIRBHUM | CPMRam Chandra Dome | BJPDr. Madan Lal Choudhury | 1,57,15621.72% | 69.3% |
| BOLPUR | CPMSomnath Chatterjee | AITCSuniti Chattaraj | 1,86,38923.84% | 75.4% |
| BURDWAN | CPMSar Nikhilananda | BJPAnup Mukherjee | 3,01,68331.05% | 79.9% |
| CALCUTTA NORTH EAST | AITCAjit Kumar Panja | CPMMd. Salim | 41,5746.31% | 71.2% |
| CALCUTTA NORTH WEST | AITCSudip Bandyopadhyay | CPMRajdeo Goala | 94,17021.23% | 63.0% |
| CALCUTTA SOUTH | AITCMamata Banerjee | CPMSubhankar Chakraborty | 2,14,00826.58% | 67.0% |
| CONTAI | AITCNeetish Sengupta | CPMSudhir Giri | 12,1331.49% | 82.3% |
| COOCH BEHAR | FBLAmar Roy Pradhan | AITCAmbika Charan Ray | 1,08,16512.13% | 79.9% |
| DARJEELING | CPMS.P. Lepcha | INCNar Bahadur Khatiwara | 1,11,96919.29% | 45.5% |
| DIAMOND HARBOUR | CPMSamik Lahiri | AITCSardar Amjad Ali | 71,1638.43% | 74.3% |
| DUM DUM | BJPTapan Sikdar | CPMAnil Bhattacharya | 1,34,56111.30% | 74.5% |
| DURGAPUR | CPMSunil Khan | BJPAnil Kumar Saha | 1,17,96313.57% | 71.7% |
| HOOGHLY | CPMRupchand Pal | AITCTapan Das Gupta | 12,4851.36% | 79.2% |
| HOWRAH | CPMSwadesh Chakraborty | AITCDr. Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar | 1,03,44910.54% | 71.0% |
| JADAVPUR | AITCKrishna Bose | CPMKanti Ganguly | 66,7656.74% | 70.6% |
| JALPAIGURI | CPMMinati Sen | AITCKalyan Chakraborty | 1,08,93713.10% | 75.5% |
| JANGIPUR | CPMAbul Hasnat Khan | INCMainul Haque | 61,3177.91% | 71.3% |
| JHARGRAM | CPMRupchand Murmu | AITCDakhin Murmu | 1,08,68113.73% | 79.8% |
| JOYNAGAR | RSPSanat Kumar Mondal | BJPKrishna Pada Majumder | 1,12,30113.99% | 71.9% |
| KATWA | CPMMahboob Zahedi | AITCAmal Kumar Dutta | 1,08,36211.80% | 77.6% |
| KRISHNAGAR | BJPSatyabrata Mookherjee | CPMDilip Chakraborty | 22,2342.66% | 77.2% |
| MALDA | INCAbul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury | CPMSailen Sarkar | 24,5533.03% | 77.4% |
| MATHURAPUR | CPMRadhika Ranjan Pramanik | AITCGobinda Chandra Naskar | 51,7256.32% | 76.0% |
| MIDNAPORE | CPIIndrajit Gupta | BJPManoranjon Dutta | 28,7733.38% | 77.5% |
| MURSHIDABAD | CPMMoinul Hassan | INCMannan Hossain | 1,23,36014.91% | 70.5% |
| NABADWIP | AITCAnanda Mohan Biswas | CPMAsim Bala | 39,1353.91% | 75.9% |
| PANSKURA | CPIGita Mukherjee | AITCGouri Ghosh | 46,8585.74% | 82.7% |
| PURULIA | FBLBirsingh Mahato | BJPTapati Mahato | 1,74,87025.67% | 67.6% |
| RAIGANJ | INCPriya Ranjan Dasmunsi | CPMSubrata Mukherjee | 75,2558.59% | 76.5% |
| SERAMPORE | AITCAkbor Ali Khandoker | CPMSudarsan Roy Chaudhury | 47,7645.24% | 68.8% |
| TAMLUK | CPMLakshman Chandra Seth | AITCNirmalendu Bhattacharjee | 54,8266.03% | 82.8% |
| ULUBERIA | CPMHannan Mollah | AITCDr. Sudipta Roy | 67,5778.36% | 73.4% |
| VISHNUPUR | CPMSandhya Bauri | AITCAdhibas Duley | 1,81,57021.76% | 77.9% |
Vote share and swing on this page are the party’s share of valid votes in West Bengal alone — a different number from its national or all-state figures, and never mixed with them.
Frequently asked
Straight answers to the questions this result page exists to answer.
Who won the West Bengal, Lok Sabha election 1999?
Communist Party of India (Marxist) won 21 of 42 seats in West Bengal, short of a majority on its own.
What was the voter turnout in the West Bengal, Lok Sabha election 1999?
Turnout was 74.07% — 3.53 cr of 4.76 cr registered electors voted.
How many Lok Sabha seats does West Bengal have?
West Bengal has 42 Lok Sabha seats.
