Constituency
1. Mekliganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-MEKLIGANJ
FBL 51.2%won by 13.3%AITC 37.8%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.6% to 13.3%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 37.8% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.0% of the vote between them, up from 63.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,27,696
Margin
17,033
13.34%
Candidates
6 contested · winner FBL- 1PARESH CHANDRA ADHIKARYFBL · FBL65,35151.2%
- 2RAMESH ROYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC48,31837.8%
- 3PRAFULLA DEB ADHIKARYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,4365.0%
- 4JOGESH CH. ROYIndependent · IND3,3732.6%
- 5PRAMILA ROYIndependent · IND2,4341.9%
- 6NAYAN CHAND BARMANAMB · AMB1,7841.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–AITC swing
- −19.1%
- FBL share
- 32.4% → 51.2%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 37.8%
- Turnout
- — → —