General Elections 1999 – Overview of West Bengal : General Elections-2004 : Backgrounder-46
The Communist Party of India (Marxist) was the largest party, winning 21 seats out of a total of 42 seats in West Bengal in the 1999 General Elections. The party secured 35.57% of the votes polled. As compared to this, the All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) secured 8 seats polling 26.04% of the votes polled. The Indian National Congress (INC), the Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) won 3 seats each. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the All India Forward Bloc (FBL) won 2 seats each. The total votes polled in the State was 3,52,92,965 during the General Elections .
Party wise percentage of votes, number of contestants and seats won in West Bengal are as follows:-
|
PARTY |
Number of Contestants
|
Seats
won |
VOTES POLLED |
%OF VOTES POLLED |
|
BJP |
13 |
2 |
3928424 |
11.13% |
|
BSP |
19 |
0 |
86250 |
0.24% |
|
CPI |
3 |
3 |
1223879 |
3.47% |
|
CPM |
32 |
21 |
12553991 |
35.57% |
|
INC |
41 |
3 |
4688932 |
13.29% |
|
JD(S) |
4 |
0 |
5773 |
0.02% |
|
AITC |
28 |
8 |
9189631 |
26.04% |
|
FBL |
3 |
2 |
1215911 |
3.45% |
|
JMM |
3 |
0 |
21873 |
0.06% |
|
JP |
4 |
0 |
7543 |
0.02% |
|
MUL |
5 |
0 |
15576 |
0.04% |
|
NCP |
10 |
0 |
19517 |
0.06% |
|
RJD |
2 |
0 |
3510 |
0.01% |
|
RSP |
4 |
3 |
1500653 |
4.25% |
|
SHS |
1 |
0 |
7444 |
0.02% |
|
SP |
2 |
0 |
6219 |
0.02% |
|
AMB |
4 |
0 |
10872 |
0.03% |
|
CPI(ML)(L) |
6 |
0 |
36276 |
0.10% |
|
JKP |
1 |
0 |
2574 |
0.01% |
|
JKP(N) |
2 |
0 |
101441 |
0.29% |
|
IND |
122 |
0 |
666676 |
1.89% |
|
Total |
309 |
42 |
35292965 |
|