1998
1996199119891984198019771971196719621957Total Constituencies: 42
West Bengal Lok Sabha Election 1998 covered all 42 parliamentary constituencies in the state. The CPM received the highest statewide vote share at 35.41% and won 24 seats, while the WBTC received 24.43% of the vote and won 7 seats. The INC won 1 seats with 15.20% of the vote.
The table below shows party-wise results based on total votes received across West Bengal.
| Party Name | Seats Contested | Seats Won | Vote Share | Vote Share on Contested | Total Votes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CPM | 32 | 24 | 35.41% | 46.38% | 1,29,31,639 |
| WBTC | 29 | 7 | 24.43% | 35.56% | 89,20,583 |
| 39 | 1 | 15.20% | 16.34% | 55,51,456 | |
| 14 | 1 | 10.20% | 30.30% | 37,24,662 | |
| 4 | 4 | 4.48% | 48.27% | 16,36,440 | |
| 3 | 3 | 3.64% | 52.10% | 13,28,205 |
| Constituency | Winner | Runner-up | Margin | Margin(%) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Party | Votes | Candidate | Party | Votes | |||
| Cooch Behar | Amar Roypradhan | FBL | 3,96,140 | Gobinda Roy | FB(S) | 2,72,974 | 1,23,166 | 13.61 |
| Alipurduars | Joachim Baxla | RSP | 4,15,006 | Dhirendra Narjinarai | BJP | 2,19,407 | 1,95,599 | 24.26 |
| Jalpaiguri | Minati Sen | CPM | 4,26,672 | Kalyan Chakraborty | WBTC | 2,51,697 | 1,74,975 | 20.15 |
| Darjeeling | Ananda Pathak | CPM | 2,80,589 | Prasanta Nandy | INC | 1,58,033 | 1,22,556 | 19.54 |
| Raiganj | Subrata Mukherjee | CPM | 3,50,897 | Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi | INC | 3,44,616 | 6,281 | 0.71 |
| Balurghat | Ranen Barman | RSP | 4,28,710 | Nani Gopal Roy | WBTC | 2,56,535 | 1,72,175 | 19.64 |
| Malda | Abul Barkat Ataul Ghani Khan Choudhury | INC | 3,53,117 | Jiban Maitra | CPM | 3,04,035 | 49,082 | 5.9 |
| Jangipur | Abul Hasnat Khan | CPM | 3,96,761 | Abu Hasem Khan Chowdhury | INC | 3,24,260 | 72,501 | 8.76 |
| Murshidabad | Moinul Hassan | CPM | 4,63,401 | Anarul Hossain Khan | INC | 2,72,935 | 1,90,466 | 20.54 |
| Berhampore | Promothes Mukherjee | RSP | 3,85,979 | Colonel (Retd) Sabyasachi Bagchi | BJP | 2,62,610 | 1,23,369 | 14.21 |
| Krishnagar | Ajoy Mukhopadhyay | CPM | 3,72,490 | Satyabrata Mookherjee | BJP | 3,31,818 | 40,672 | 4.59 |
| Nabadwip | Asim Bala | CPM | 4,63,813 | Dr Ramendranath Biswas | WBTC | 4,22,659 | 41,154 | 3.82 |
| Barasat | Dr Ranjit Kumar Panja | WBTC | 4,99,181 | Chitra Ghosh | FBL | 4,32,474 | 66,707 | 6.3 |
| Basirhat | Ajay Chakraborty | CPI | 4,25,442 | Dr Sudipto Roy | WBTC | 3,05,366 | 1,20,076 | 13.79 |
| Joynagar | Sanat Kumar Mandal | RSP | 4,06,745 | Krishnapada Majumdar | BJP | 2,30,684 | 1,76,061 | 20.99 |
| Mathurapur | Radhika Ranjan Pramanik | CPM | 3,93,635 | Jagaranjan Haldar | WBTC | 2,91,759 | 1,01,876 | 12.03 |
| Diamond Harbour | Samik Lahiri | CPM | 4,05,048 | Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar | WBTC | 3,44,092 | 60,956 | 6.92 |
| Jadavpur | Krishna Bose | WBTC | 5,14,338 | Malini Bhattacharya | CPM | 4,36,137 | 78,201 | 7.43 |
| Barrackpore | Tarit Baran Topdar | CPM | 3,83,054 | Adhikary Tarun | WBTC | 3,55,097 | 27,957 | 3.36 |
| Dum Dum | Tapan Sikdar | BJP | 6,31,383 | Nirmal Kanti Chatterjee | CPM | 4,93,978 | 1,37,405 | 11.03 |
| Calcutta North West | Sudip Bandyopadhyay | WBTC | 2,26,832 | Sarala Maheswari | CPM | 1,53,349 | 73,483 | 15.9 |
| Calcutta North East | Ajit Kumar Panja | WBTC | 3,10,361 | Prasanta Chatterjee | CPM | 2,45,489 | 64,872 | 9.84 |
| Calcutta South | Mamata Banerjee | WBTC | 5,03,551 | Prasanta Sur | CPM | 2,79,470 | 2,24,081 | 26.42 |
| Howrah | Dr Bikram Sarkar | WBTC | 4,37,224 | Swadesh Chakraborty | CPM | 4,30,689 | 6,535 | 0.64 |
| Uluberia | Hannan Mollah | CPM | 4,04,000 | Saradindu Biswas | WBTC | 2,90,470 | 1,13,530 | 13.34 |
| Serampore | Akbor Ali Khandoker | WBTC | 4,39,269 | Sudarsan Ray Chaudhuri | CPM | 3,94,658 | 44,611 | 4.54 |
| Hooghly | Rupchand Pal | CPM | 4,31,229 | Tapan Dasgupta | WBTC | 4,25,113 | 6,116 | 0.66 |
| Arambagh | Anil Basu | CPM | 5,21,507 | Chunilal Chakraborty | BJP | 3,34,207 | 1,87,300 | 20.17 |
| Panskura | Geeta Mukherjee | CPI | 4,50,092 | Dr Saumen Mahapatra | WBTC | 2,70,549 | 1,79,543 | 21.89 |
| Tamluk | Lakshman Chandra Seth | CPM | 4,77,516 | Nirmalendu Bhattacherjee | WBTC | 3,89,564 | 87,952 | 9.44 |
| Contai | Sudhir Giri | CPM | 3,94,017 | Akhil Giri | WBTC | 3,19,159 | 74,858 | 9.08 |
| Midnapore | Indrajit Gupta | CPI | 4,52,671 | Dutta Manoranjan | BJP | 1,77,152 | 2,75,519 | 32.11 |
| Jhargram | Murmu Rupchand | CPM | 4,55,625 | Samay Mandi | WBTC | 1,68,437 | 2,87,188 | 35.79 |
| Purulia | Bir Singh Mahat0 | FBL | 3,76,313 | Nepal Mahata | INC | 2,19,176 | 1,57,137 | 21.4 |
| Bankura | Acharia Basudeb | CPM | 3,69,695 | Sukumar Banerjee | BJP | 2,58,112 | 1,11,583 | 14.91 |
| Vishnupur | Sandhya Bauri | CPM | 4,79,727 | Purnima Lohar | WBTC | 3,06,486 | 1,73,241 | 20.51 |
| Durgapur | Khan Sunil | CPM | 4,68,449 | Ray Suryya | BJP | 3,26,420 | 1,42,029 | 15.71 |
| Asansol | Bikash Chowdhury | CPM | 3,55,382 | Ajit Kumar Ghaatak (Moloy Ghaatak) | WBTC | 3,29,233 | 26,149 | 3.02 |
| Burdwan | Sar Nikhilananda | CPM | 5,78,825 | Prof (Smt) Santi Roy | BJP | 3,06,572 | 2,72,253 | 27.7 |
| Katwa | Zahedi Mahboob | CPM | 4,70,543 | Swapan Debnath | WBTC | 3,31,836 | 1,38,707 | 14.58 |
| Bolpur | Somnath Chatterjee | CPM | 4,70,645 | Gour Hari Chandra | WBTC | 2,19,553 | 2,51,092 | 31.77 |
| Birbhum | Dome Ram Chandra | CPM | 3,80,314 | Dr Madan Lal Choudhury | BJP | 2,18,802 | 1,61,512 | 20.84 |
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