Constituency
4. Cooch Behar North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-NORTH
FBL 46.9%won by 15.1%AITC 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to FBL (FBL), which now leads by 15.1%.
- FBL vote shareFBL went from 41.8% to 46.9% of the vote here (+5.1%).
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 31.8% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 78.7% between them, down from 89.0% — the field split more ways.
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
1,21,955
Margin
18,357
15.05%
Candidates
8 contested · winner FBL- 1DIPAK CHANDRA SARKERFBL · FBL57,17046.9%
- 2MIHIR GOSWAMIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC38,81331.8%
- 3CHANDAN KUNDUIndependent · IND11,4749.4%
- 4KANKAN BHOWMIKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,0835.0%
- 5PRAKASH ROYIndependent · IND4,6713.8%
- 6USHA ROYNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,3011.1%
- 7PAPIYA BARMANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,2251.0%
- 8HARIBALA ROYAMB · AMB1,2181.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- FBLflipped
- FBL–AITC swing
- −26.7%
- FBL share
- 41.8% → 46.9%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —