1999 Indian general election in West Bengal

April 2024 none December 2023 December 2023 1999 Indian general election in West Bengal India no 75.05%https://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/4125-general-election-1999-vol-i-ii-iii/ ( 4.22 pp) 1998 2004 3 October 1999https://hindi.eci.gov.in/files/file/4125-general-election-1999-vol-i-ii-iii/?do=download&r=9777&confirm=1&t=1&csrfKey=dcaf4726e15ffefaeeea2200d109ecd8 All 42 West Bengal seats in the Lok Sabha List of members of the 12th Lok Sabha#West Bengal List of members of the 13th Lok Sabha#West Bengal Communist Party of India (Marxist) Anil Biswas 24 35.57 21 All India Trinamool Congress Mamata Banerjee 7 26.04 8 Indian National Congress A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury 1 13.29 3 Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) Manoj Bhattacharya 4 4.25 3 Communist Party of India Manju Kumar Majumdar 3 3.47 3 Bharatiya Janata Party Tapan Sikdar 2 11.13 2 All India Forward Bloc Debabrata Biswas 2 3.45 2 300px Alliance wise Structure 300px Constituencies in the state. Constituencies in black #ffee6f yellow and in black #ffccab pink represent seats reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes respectively. Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party Prime Minister after Atal Bihari Vajpayee Bharatiya Janata Party 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 Front (West Bengal) Left Fronthttps://old.eci.gov.in/files/file/4125-general-election-1999-vol-i-ii-iii/ Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Communist Party of India (Marxist) yes 50px 50px Anil Biswas 32 Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) 50px 50px Manoj Bhattacharya 4 All India Forward Bloc 50px 50px Debabrata Biswas 3 Communist Party of India 50px 50px Swapan Banerjee 3 Total42 colspan="6" National Democratic Alliance National Democratic Alliance Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats All India Trinamool Congress 50px 50px Mamata Banerjee 28 Bharatiya Janata Party 50px 50px Tapan Sikdar 13 Independent politician 20px 50px Natabar Bagdi 1 Total42 colspan="6" Indian National Congress Indian National Congress-led Alliance Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Indian National Congress 50px 50px A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury 41Friendly Contest on Vishnupur (SC) between JKP(N) and INC. Jharkhand Party (Naren) yes 50px 50px Naren Hansda 2Friendly Contest on Vishnupur (SC) between JKP(N) and INC. Total42+1Friendly Contest on Vishnupur (SC) between JKP(N) and INC. colspan="6" Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) Party Flag Symbol Leader Seats Socialist Unity Centre of India (Communist) 50px 50px Provash Ghosh 42 List of Candidates ConstituencyNDALeft FrontINC+ No. Name Party Candidate Party Candidate Party Candidate 1 Cooch Behar (SC) Trinamool Congress Ambika Charan Ray All India Forward Bloc Amar Roy Pradhan Indian National Congress Sabita Roy 2 Alipurduars (ST) Bharatiya Janata Party Dhirendra Narjinarai Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) Joachim Baxla Indian National Congress Basanti Baraik 3 Jalpaiguri Trinamool Congress Kalyan Chakraborty Communist Party of India (Marxist) Minati Sen Indian National Congress Girija Sankar Roy 4 Darjeeling Trinamool Congress Tarun Roy Communist Party of India (Marxist) S. P. Lepcha Indian National Congress Nar Bahadur Khatiwada 5 Raiganj Trinamool Congress Biplab Mitra Communist Party of India (Marxist) Subrata Mukherjee Indian National Congress Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi 6 Balurghat (SC) Bharatiya Janata Party Subhash Chandra Barman Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) Ranen Barman Indian National Congress Bikash Barman 7 Malda Bharatiya Janata Party Muzaffar Khan Communist Party of India (Marxist) Sailen Sarkar Indian National Congress A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury 8 Jangipur Trinamool Congress Syed Mustaque Murshed Communist Party of India (Marxist) Abul Hasnat Khan Indian National Congress Mainul Haque 9 Murshidabad Trinamool Congress Sagir Hossain Communist Party of India (Marxist) Moinul Hassan Indian National Congress Abdul Mannan Hossain10BerhamporeBharatiya Janata Party Colonel (Retd.) Sabyasachi BagchiRevolutionary Socialist Party (India) Promothes MukherjeeIndian National Congress Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury11KrishnanagarBharatiya Janata Party Satyabrata MookherjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Dilip ChakrabortyIndian National Congress Ashim Saha12Nabadwip (SC)Trinamool Congress Ananda Mohan BiswasCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Asim BalaIndian National Congress Biswas Shashanka Shekhor13BarasatTrinamool Congress Ranjit Kumar PanjaAll India Forward Bloc Saral DebIndian National Congress Ghosal Debi14BasirhatTrinamool Congress Dr. M. NuruzzamanCommunist Party of India Ajoy ChakrabortyIndian National Congress Abu Tayeb M. Moazam Hossin15Joynagar (SC)Bharatiya Janata Party Krishna Pada MajumderRevolutionary Socialist Party (India) Sanat Kumar MondalIndian National Congress Jagat Pada Sanpui16Mathurapur (SC)Trinamool Congress Gobinda Chandra NaskarCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Radhika Ranjan PramanikIndian National Congress Monoranjan Halder17Diamond HarbourTrinamool Congress Sardar Amjad AliCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Samik LahiriIndian National Congress Sk Daulat Ali18JadavpurTrinamool Congress Krishna BoseCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Kanti GangulyIndian National Congress Dr. Maya Ghose19BarrackporeTrinamool Congress Jayanta BhattacharyaCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Tarit Baran TopdarIndian National Congress Ashok Sukla20Dum DumBharatiya Janata Party Tapan SikdarCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Anil BhattacharyaIndian National Congress Ramesh Bhattacharjee21Calcutta North WestTrinamool Congress Sudip BandyopadhyayCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Rajdeo GoalaIndian National Congress Siddhartha Sankar Ray22Calcutta North EastTrinamool Congress Ajit Kumar PanjaCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Md. SalimIndian National Congress Tapas Roy23Calcutta SouthTrinamool Congress Mamata BanerjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Subhankar ChakrabortyIndian National Congress Partha Roy Chowdhury 24 Howrah Trinamool Congress Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar Communist Party of India (Marxist) Swadesh Chakraborty Indian National Congress Dr. Subhash Chandra Bandyopadhyay25UluberiaTrinamool Congress Dr. Sudipta RoyCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Hannan MollahIndian National Congress Sisir Kumar Sen26SeramporeTrinamool Congress Akbar Ali KhondkarCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Sudarsan Roy ChaudhuryIndian National Congress Pradip Bhattacharya27HooghlyTrinamool Congress Tapan DasguptaCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Rupchand PalIndian National Congress Dilip Nath28ArambaghBharatiya Janata Party Chunilal ChakrabortyCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Anil BasuIndian National Congress Idrish Ali29PanskuraTrinamool Congress Gouri GhoshCommunist Party of India Gita MukherjeeIndian National Congress Rajani Kanta Doloi30TamlukTrinamool Congress Nirmalendu BhattacharyaCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Lakshman Chandra SethIndian National Congress Manik Bhowmik31ContaiTrinamool Congress Nitish SenguptaCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Sudhir GiriIndian National Congress Ajit Khanra32MidnaporeBharatiya Janata Party Manoranjan DuttaCommunist Party of India Indrajit GuptaIndian National Congress Samir Roy33Jhargram (ST)Trinamool Congress Dakhin MurmuCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Rupchand MurmuJharkhand Party (Naren) JP(N) Murmu Biswanath34PuruliaBharatiya Janata Party Tapati MahatoAll India Forward Bloc Bir Singh MahatoIndian National Congress Nepal Mahata35BankuraIndependent Ind. Natabar BagdiCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Basudeb AchariaIndian National Congress Bula Chatterjee36Vishnupur (SC)Trinamool Congress 2Adhibas DuleyCommunist Party of India (Marxist) 2Sandhya BauriIndian National Congress Mallika MandalJharkhand Party (Naren) JP(N) Saha Ajit37Durgapur (SC)Bharatiya Janata Party Anil Kumar SahaCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Sunil KhanIndian National Congress Haradhan Mondal38AsansolTrinamool Congress Ajit Ghatak (Moloy Ghatak)Communist Party of India (Marxist) Bikash ChowdhuryIndian National Congress Manik Upadhyay39BurdwanBharatiya Janata Party Anup MukherjeeCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Nikhilananda SarIndian National Congress Raj Krishna Dawn40KatwaTrinamool Congress Amal Kumar DuttaCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Mahboob ZahediIndian National Congress Tuhin Samanta41BolpurTrinamool Congress Suniti ChattarajCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Somnath ChatterjeeIndian National Congress Dr. Susil Banerjee42Birbhum (SC)Bharatiya Janata Party Dr. Madan Lal ChoudhuryCommunist Party of India (Marxist) Ram Chandra DomeIndian National Congress Asit Kumar Mal Results Results by constituency Constituency Winner Runner-up Margin No. Name P Party A Alliance Candidate Votes % P Party A Alliance Candidate Votes % 1 Cooch Behar (SC) All India Forward Bloc Left Front (West Bengal) Amar Roy Pradhan 443,148 49.69% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Ambika Charan Choudhury 334,983 37.56%108,165 2 Alipurduars (ST) Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) Left Front (West Bengal) Joachim Baxla 389,919 51.25% Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Dhirendra Narjinarai 236,786 31.12%153,133 3 Jalpaiguri Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Minati Sen 405,785 48.78% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Kalyan Chakraborty 296,848 35.69%108,937 4 Darjeeling Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) S. P. Lepcha 256,826 44.24% Indian National Congress United Progressive Alliance Nar Bahadur Khatiwada 144,857 24.96%111,969 5 Raiganj Indian National Congress United Progressive Alliance Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi 409,331 46.74% Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Subrata Mukherjee 334,076 38.15%75,255 6 Balurghat (SC) Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) Left Front (West Bengal) Ranen Barman 375,669 44.67% Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Subhash Chandra Barman 312,748 37.19%62,921 7 Malda Indian National Congress United Progressive Alliance A. B. A. Ghani Khan Choudhury 325,833 40.22% Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Sailen Sarkar 301,280 37.19%24,553 8 Jangipur Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Abul Hasnat Khan 352,580 45.47% Indian National Congress United Progressive Alliance Mainul Haque 291,263 37.56%61,317 9 Murshidabad Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Moinul Hassan 391,366 47.30% Indian National Congress United Progressive Alliance Abdul Mannan Hossain 268,006 32.39%123,360 10 Baharampur Indian National Congress United Progressive Alliance Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury 434,073 46.86% Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) Left Front (West Bengal) Promothes Mukherjee 338,682 36.56%95,391 11 Krishnanagar Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Satyabrata Mookherjee 366,954 43.82% Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Dilip Chakraborty 344,720 41.16%22,234 12 Nabadwip (SC) Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Ananda Mohan Biswas 459,319 45.84% Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Asim Bala 420,184 41.93%39,135 13 Barasat Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Ranjit Kumar Panja 518,520 50.28% All India Forward Bloc Left Front (West Bengal) Saral Deb 421,620 40.88%96,900 14 Basirhat Communist Party of India Left Front (West Bengal) Ajay Chakraborty 407,903 47.64% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance M. Nuruzzaman 325,316 37.99%82,587 15 Jaynagar (SC) Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) Left Front (West Bengal) Sanat Kumar Mandal 396,383 49.39% Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Krishna Pada Majumder 284,082 35.40%112,301 16 Mathurapur (SC) Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Radhika Ranjan Pramanik 382,962 46.78% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Gobind Chandra Naskar 331,237 40.46%51,725 17 Diamond Harbour Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Samik Lahiri 402,761 47.70% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Sardar Amjad Ali 331,598 42.23%71,163 18 Jadavpur Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Krishna Bose 485,366 48.97% Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Kanti Ganguly 418,601 42.23%66,765 19 Barrackpore Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Tarit Baran Topdar 399,269 48.06% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Jayanta Bhattacharya 358,494 43.15%40,775 20 Dum Dum Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Tapan Sikdar 614,471 51.59% Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Anil Bhattacharya 479,910 40.29%134,561 21 Calcutta North West Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Sudip Bandyopadhyay 206,684 46.60% Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Rajdeo Goala 112,514 25.37%94,170 22 Calcutta North East Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Ajit Kumar Panja 297,491 45.17% Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Mohammed Salim 255,917 38.86%41,574 23 Calcutta South Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Mamata Banerjee 469,103 58.26% Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Subhankar Chakraborty 255,095 31.68%214,008 24 Howrah Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Swadesh Chakraborty 490,537 49.98% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar 387,088 39.44%103,449 25 Uluberia Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Hannan Mollah 399,397 49.40% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Sudipta Roy 331,820 41.04%67,577 26 Serampore Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Akbar Ali Khondkar 411,406 45.14% Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Sudarsan Roy Chaudhary 363,642 39.90%47,764 27 Hooghly Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Rupchand Pal 440,674 47.94% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Tapan Dasgupta 428,189 46.58%12,485 28 Arambagh Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Anil Basu 503,920 53.98% Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Chunilal Chakraborty 387,199 41.48%116,721 29 Panskura Communist Party of India Left Front (West Bengal) Geeta Mukherjee 401,431 49.19% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Gouri Ghosh 354,573 43.45%46,858 30 Tamluk Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Lakshman Chandra Seth 455,168 50.04% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Nirmalendu Bhattacharya 400,342 44.01%54,826 31 Contai Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Nitish Sengupta 395,048 48.45% Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Sudhir Kumar Giri 382,915 46.96%12,133 32 Medinipur Communist Party of India Left Front (West Bengal) Indrajit Gupta 414,545 48.63% Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Manronjan Dutta 385,772 45.25%28,773 33 Jhargram (ST) Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Rupchand Murmu 402,325 50.82% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Dakhin Murmu 293,644 37.09%108,691 34 Purulia All India Forward Bloc Left Front (West Bengal) Bir Singh Mahato 351,143 51.55% Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Tapati Mahato 176,273 25.88%174,870 35 Bankura Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Basudeb Acharia 381,720 52.73% Independent politician IND National Democratic Alliance Natabar Bagdi 274,722 37.95%106,998 36 Vishnupur (SC) Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Sandhya Bauri 483,084 57.89% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Abhibas Duley 301,514 36.13%181,570 37 Durgapur (SC) Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Sunil Khan 461,940 53.15% Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Anil Kumar Saha 343,977 39.58%117,963 38 Asansol Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Bikash Chowdhury 377,265 46.27% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Moloy Ghatak 339,401 41.63%37,864 39 Burdwan Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Nikhilananda Sar 598,170 61.56% Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Anup Mukherjee 296,487 30.51%301,683 40 Katwa Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Mahboob Zahedi 461,502 50.25% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Amal Kumar Dutta 353,140 38.45%108,362 41 Bolpur Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Somnath Chatterjee 464,199 59.36% Trinamool Congress National Democratic Alliance Suniti Chhataraj 277,810 35.53%186,389 42 Birbhum (SC) Communist Party of India (Marxist) Left Front (West Bengal) Ram Chandra Dome 373,687 51.65% Bharatiya Janata Party National Democratic Alliance Madan Lal Choudhury 216,531 29.93%157,156 Results by alliance or party left Seat Share by party CPI(M) 50 Communist Party of India (Marxist) AITC 19.05 Trinamool Congress INC Indian National Congress 7.14 RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) 7.14 CPI 7.14 Communist Party of India BJP 4.76 Bharatiya Janata Party AIFB 4.76 All India Forward Bloc right Vote Share by party CPI(M) 35.57 Communist Party of India (Marxist) AITC 26.04 Trinamool Congress INC Indian National Congress 13.29 Bharatiya Janata Party BJP 11.13 RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) 4.25 CPI 3.47 Communist Party of India AIFB 3.45 All India Forward Bloc IND 1.89 Independent politician Others 0.95 Others left Seat Share by alliance LF 69.05 Left Front (West Bengal) NDA 23.81 National Democratic Alliance UPA United Progressive Alliance 7.14 right Vote Share by alliance LF 46.74 Left Front (West Bengal) NDA 37.91 National Democratic Alliance UPA 13.58 United Progressive Alliance IND 1.11 Independent politician Others 0.66 Others 29103 LF NDA UPA 21833322 CPI(M) AITC INC RSP CPI BJP AIFB Parties/ Alliance Popular vote Seats Votes % ±pp Contested Won +/− rowspan="5" Left Front (West Bengal) LF Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPI(M) 12,553,991 35.57% 0.16 pp 32 21 3 Revolutionary Socialist Party (India) RSP 1,500,653 4.25% 0.23 pp 4 3 1 Communist Party of India CPI 1,223,879 3.47% 0.17 pp 3 3 All India Forward Bloc 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" National Democratic Alliance NDA All India Trinamool Congress AITC 9,189,631 26.04% 1.61 pp 28 8 1 Bharatiya Janata Party BJP 3,928,424 11.13% 0.93 pp 13 2 1 Independent politician IND 274,722 0.78% New 1 0 New Total 13,118,055 37.91% 1.32 pp 41 10 2 rowspan="3" United Progressive Alliance UPA Indian National Congress INC 4,688,932 13.29% 1.91 pp 41 3 2 Jharkhand Party JKP(N) 101,441 0.29% 0.21 pp 2 0 Total 4,790,373 13.58% 2.12 pp 43 3 2 Other Others 223,427 0.66% 0.37 pp 60 0 Independent (politician) 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 March2001Trinamool Congress 5Minister Without Portfolio8 September20039 January2004Cabinet MinisterMines9 January200422 May2004Coal2Ajit Kumar PanjaCalcutta North EastMinister of StateExternal Affairs13 October199916 March20013Satyabrata MookherjeeKrishnagarMinister of StateChemicals and Fertilizers30 September20001 July2002Bharatiya Janata Party 8Social 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 Notes References West Bengal Category:Indian general elections in West Bengal