Constituency
2. Sitalkuchi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-SITALKUCHI
CPM 57.6%won by 35.0%INC 22.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.3% to 35.0%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.2% between them, down from 90.5% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,30,018
Margin
45,562
35.04%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SUDHIR PRAMANIKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM74,90757.6%
- 2BIRENDRA NARAYAN BARMAIndian National Congress · INC29,34522.6%
- 3HEMCHANDRA BARMANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,62812.8%
- 4DINESH ROYBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,5822.8%
- 5BISNUMANI PATOWARIIndependent · IND3,1192.4%
- 6SUBODH BARMANAMB · AMB1,3561.0%
- 7GIRINDRA BARMANIndependent · IND1,0810.8%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +9.7%
- CPM share
- 57.9% → 57.6%
- INC share
- 32.6% → 22.6%
- Turnout
- — → —