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5. Cooch Behar West

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 2001

WB-COOCH-BEHAR-WEST

FBL 54.7%won by 22.6%AITC 32.1%

What changed here

Derived

FBL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 9.8% to 22.6%.

  • New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 32.1% — it did not contest here in 1996.
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,36,665
Margin
30,879
22.59%

Candidates

7 contested · winner FBL
  1. 1AKSHOY THAKURFBL · FBL74,71354.7%
  2. 2SOUMENDRA CHANDRA DASAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC43,83432.1%
  3. 3HARIPADA PALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,7888.6%
  4. 4NRIPEN KARJEEIndependent · IND2,0841.5%
  5. 5DIGENDRA CHANDRA MAJUMDERBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,6531.2%
  6. 6KRISHNA ROY (BARMAN)PDS · PDS1,3061.0%
  7. 7AKIK HOSEN CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND1,2870.9%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
FBL
Winner now
FBL
FBL–AITC swing
−25.5%
FBL share
48.1% → 54.7%
AITC share
0.0% → 32.1%
Turnout
— → —
4. Cooch Behar North6. Sitai
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