1999 Indian general election in West Bengal

The 1999 Indian general election in West Bengal was held on 3 October to elect 42 members of the 12th Lok Sabha.

Election schedule The polling schedule for the 1999 General Elections and State Assembly elections was announced by the Chief Election Commissioner on 11 July 1999. Poll eventPhaseVNotification date7 September 1999Last date for filing nomination14 September 1999Scrutiny of nomination15 September 1999Last Date for withdrawal of nomination17 September 1999Date of poll3 October 1999Date of counting of votes/Result6 October 1999

Parties and alliances colspan="6" Left Fronthttps://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/4125-general-election-1999-vol-i-ii-iii/ Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Anil Biswas 32 Manoj Bhattacharya 4 Debabrata Biswas 3 Swapan Banerjee 3 Total42 colspan="6" National Democratic Alliance Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Mamata Banerjee 28 Tapan Sikdar 13 Natabar Bagdi 1 Total42 colspan="6" Indian National Congress-led Alliance Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury 41 Naren Hansda 2 Total42+1 colspan="6" Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Provash Ghosh 42

List of Candidates ConstituencyNDALeft FrontINC+ No. Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate 1 Cooch Behar (SC) Ambika Charan Ray Amar Roy Pradhan Sabita Roy 2 Alipurduars (ST) Dhirendra Narjinarai Joachim Baxla Basanti Baraik 3 Jalpaiguri Kalyan Chakraborty Minati Sen Girija Sankar Roy 4 Darjeeling Tarun Roy S. P. Lepcha Nar Bahadur Khatiwada 5 Raiganj Biplab Mitra Subrata Mukherjee Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi 6 Balurghat (SC) Subhash Chandra Barman Ranen Barman Bikash Barman 7 Malda Muzaffar Khan Sailen Sarkar A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury 8 Jangipur Syed Mustaque Murshed Abul Hasnat Khan Mainul Haque 9 Murshidabad Sagir Hossain Moinul Hassan Abdul Mannan Hossain10Berhampore Colonel (Retd.) Sabyasachi Bagchi Promothes Mukherjee Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury11Krishnanagar Satyabrata Mookherjee Dilip Chakraborty Ashim Saha12Nabadwip (SC) Ananda Mohan Biswas Asim Bala Biswas Shashanka Shekhor13Barasat Ranjit Kumar Panja Saral Deb Ghosal Debi14Basirhat Dr. M. Nuruzzaman Ajoy Chakraborty Abu Tayeb M. Moazam Hossin15Joynagar (SC) Krishna Pada Majumder Sanat Kumar Mondal Jagat Pada Sanpui16Mathurapur (SC) Gobinda Chandra Naskar Radhika Ranjan Pramanik Monoranjan Halder17Diamond Harbour Sardar Amjad Ali Samik Lahiri Sk Daulat Ali18Jadavpur Krishna Bose Kanti Ganguly Dr. Maya Ghose19Barrackpore Jayanta Bhattacharya Tarit Baran Topdar Ashok Sukla20Dum Dum Tapan Sikdar Anil Bhattacharya Ramesh Bhattacharjee21Calcutta North West Sudip Bandyopadhyay Rajdeo Goala Siddhartha Sankar Ray22Calcutta North East Ajit Kumar Panja Md. Salim Tapas Roy23Calcutta South Mamata Banerjee Subhankar Chakraborty Partha Roy Chowdhury 24 Howrah Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar Swadesh Chakraborty Dr. Subhash Chandra Bandyopadhyay25Uluberia Dr. Sudipta Roy Hannan Mollah Sisir Kumar Sen26Serampore Akbar Ali Khondkar Sudarsan Roy Chaudhury Pradip Bhattacharya27Hooghly Tapan Dasgupta Rupchand Pal Dilip Nath28Arambagh Chunilal Chakraborty Anil Basu Idrish Ali29Panskura Gouri Ghosh Gita Mukherjee Rajani Kanta Doloi30Tamluk Nirmalendu Bhattacharya Lakshman Chandra Seth Manik Bhowmik31Contai Nitish Sengupta Sudhir Giri Ajit Khanra32Midnapore Manoranjan Dutta Indrajit Gupta Samir Roy33Jhargram (ST) Dakhin Murmu Rupchand Murmu Murmu Biswanath34Purulia Tapati Mahato Bir Singh Mahato Nepal Mahata35Bankura Natabar Bagdi Basudeb Acharia Bula Chatterjee36Vishnupur (SC)Adhibas DuleySandhya Bauri Mallika Mandal Saha Ajit37Durgapur (SC) Anil Kumar Saha Sunil Khan Haradhan Mondal38Asansol Ajit Ghatak (Moloy Ghatak) Bikash Chowdhury Manik Upadhyay39Burdwan Anup Mukherjee Nikhilananda Sar Raj Krishna Dawn40Katwa Amal Kumar Dutta Mahboob Zahedi Tuhin Samanta41Bolpur Suniti Chattaraj Somnath Chatterjee Dr. Susil Banerjee42Birbhum (SC) Dr. Madan Lal Choudhury Ram Chandra Dome Asit Kumar Mal

Results

Results by constituency Constituency Winner Runner-up Margin No. Name Candidate Votes % Candidate Votes % 1 Cooch Behar (SC) Amar Roy Pradhan 443,148 49.69% Ambika Charan Choudhury 334,983 37.56%108,165 2 Alipurduars (ST) Joachim Baxla 389,919 51.25% Dhirendra Narjinarai 236,786 31.12%153,133 3 Jalpaiguri Minati Sen 405,785 48.78% Kalyan Chakraborty 296,848 35.69%108,937 4 Darjeeling S. P. Lepcha 256,826 44.24% Nar Bahadur Khatiwada 144,857 24.96%111,969 5 Raiganj Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi 409,331 46.74% Subrata Mukherjee 334,076 38.15%75,255 6 Balurghat (SC) Ranen Barman 375,669 44.67% Subhash Chandra Barman 312,748 37.19%62,921 7 Malda A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury 325,833 40.22% Sailen Sarkar 301,280 37.19%24,553 8 Jangipur Abul Hasnat Khan 352,580 45.47% Mainul Haque 291,263 37.56%61,317 9 Murshidabad Moinul Hassan 391,366 47.30% Abdul Mannan Hossain 268,006 32.39%123,360 10 Baharampur Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 434,073 46.86% Promothes Mukherjee 338,682 36.56%95,391 11 Krishnanagar Satyabrata Mookherjee 366,954 43.82% Dilip Chakraborty 344,720 41.16%22,234 12 Nabadwip (SC) Ananda Mohan Biswas 459,319 45.84% Asim Bala 420,184 41.93%39,135 13 Barasat Ranjit Kumar Panja 518,520 50.28% Saral Deb 421,620 40.88%96,900 14 Basirhat Ajay Chakraborty 407,903 47.64% M. Nuruzzaman 325,316 37.99%82,587 15 Jaynagar (SC) Sanat Kumar Mandal 396,383 49.39% Krishna Pada Majumder 284,082 35.40%112,301 16 Mathurapur (SC) Radhika Ranjan Pramanik 382,962 46.78% Gobind Chandra Naskar 331,237 40.46%51,725 17 Diamond Harbour Samik Lahiri 402,761 47.70% Sardar Amjad Ali 331,598 42.23%71,163 18 Jadavpur Krishna Bose 485,366 48.97% Kanti Ganguly 418,601 42.23%66,765 19 Barrackpore Tarit Baran Topdar 399,269 48.06% Jayanta Bhattacharya 358,494 43.15%40,775 20 Dum Dum Tapan Sikdar 614,471 51.59% Anil Bhattacharya 479,910 40.29%134,561 21 Calcutta North West Sudip Bandyopadhyay 206,684 46.60% Rajdeo Goala 112,514 25.37%94,170 22 Calcutta North East Ajit Kumar Panja 297,491 45.17% Mohammed Salim 255,917 38.86%41,574 23 Calcutta South Mamata Banerjee 469,103 58.26% Subhankar Chakraborty 255,095 31.68%214,008 24 Howrah Swadesh Chakraborty 490,537 49.98% Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar 387,088 39.44%103,449 25 Uluberia Hannan Mollah 399,397 49.40% Sudipta Roy 331,820 41.04%67,577 26 Serampore Akbar Ali Khondkar 411,406 45.14% Sudarsan Roy Chaudhary 363,642 39.90%47,764 27 Hooghly Rupchand Pal 440,674 47.94% Tapan Dasgupta 428,189 46.58%12,485 28 Arambagh Anil Basu 503,920 53.98% Chunilal Chakraborty 387,199 41.48%116,721 29 Panskura Geeta Mukherjee 401,431 49.19% Gouri Ghosh 354,573 43.45%46,858 30 Tamluk Lakshman Chandra Seth 455,168 50.04% Nirmalendu Bhattacharya 400,342 44.01%54,826 31 Contai Nitish Sengupta 395,048 48.45% Sudhir Kumar Giri 382,915 46.96%12,133 32 Medinipur Indrajit Gupta 414,545 48.63% Manronjan Dutta 385,772 45.25%28,773 33 Jhargram (ST) Rupchand Murmu 402,325 50.82% Dakhin Murmu 293,644 37.09%108,691 34 Purulia Bir Singh Mahato 351,143 51.55% Tapati Mahato 176,273 25.88%174,870 35 Bankura Basudeb Acharia 381,720 52.73% Natabar Bagdi 274,722 37.95%106,998 36 Vishnupur (SC) Sandhya Bauri 483,084 57.89% Abhibas Duley 301,514 36.13%181,570 37 Durgapur (SC) Sunil Khan 461,940 53.15% Anil Kumar Saha 343,977 39.58%117,963 38 Asansol Bikash Chowdhury 377,265 46.27% Moloy Ghatak 339,401 41.63%37,864 39 Burdwan Nikhilananda Sar 598,170 61.56% Anup Mukherjee 296,487 30.51%301,683 40 Katwa Mahboob Zahedi 461,502 50.25% Amal Kumar Dutta 353,140 38.45%108,362 41 Bolpur Somnath Chatterjee 464,199 59.36% Suniti Chhataraj 277,810 35.53%186,389 42 Birbhum (SC) Ram Chandra Dome 373,687 51.65% Madan Lal Choudhury 216,531 29.93%157,156

Results by alliance or party

29103 LF NDA UPA 21833322 CPI(M) AITC INC RSP CPI BJP AIFB Parties/ Alliance Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/− rowspan="5" LF CPI(M) 12,553,991 35.57% 0.16 pp 32 21 3 RSP 1,500,653 4.25% 0.23 pp 4 3 1 CPI 1,223,879 3.47% 0.17 pp 3 3 AIFB 1,215,911 3.45% 0.15 pp 3 2 Total 16,494,434 46.74% 0.36 pp 42 29 4 rowspan="4" NDA AITC 9,189,631 26.04% 1.61 pp 28 8 1 BJP 3,928,424 11.13% 0.93 pp 13 2 1 IND 274,722 0.78% New 1 0 New Total 13,118,055 37.91% 1.32 pp 41 10 2 rowspan="3" UPA INC 4,688,932 13.29% 1.91 pp 41 3 2 JKP(N) 101,441 0.29% 0.21 pp 2 0 Total 4,790,373 13.58% 2.12 pp 43 3 2 Others 223,427 0.66% 0.37 pp 60 0 IND 391,954 1.11% 0.07 pp 121 0 Total 35,292,965 100% - 309 42 -

Post-election Union Council of Ministers from West Bengal SI No. Name Constituency Designation Department From ToParty1Mamata BanerjeeCalcutta SouthCabinet MinisterRailways13 October199916 March2001Minister Without Portfolio8 September20039 January2004Cabinet MinisterMines9 January200422 May2004Coal2Ajit Kumar PanjaCalcutta North EastMinister of StateExternal Affairs13 October199916 March20013Satyabrata MookherjeeKrishnagarMinister of StateChemicals and Fertilizers30 September20001 July2002Social Justice and Empowerment1 July200229 January2003 Planning; Department of Atomic Energy; Department of Space; Statistics and Programme Implementation29 January200322 May2004Commerce and Industry5 June200322 May20044Tapan SikdarDum DumMinister of StateCommunications and Information Technology22 December20011 July2002Chemicals and Fertilizers1 July200229 January2003Small Scale Industries29 January200322 May2004Development of North Eastern Region

Assembly Segment wise lead PartyAssembly segmentsPosition in Assembly (as of 2001 election) Communist Party of India (Marxist) 135 143 Trinamool Congress 65 60 Revolutionary Socialist Party 22 17 Indian National Congress 20 26 Communist Party of India 18 7 Bharatiya Janata Party 17 0 All India Forward Bloc 14 25 Others 3 16 Total294

See also Politics of West Bengal 1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election 2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

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