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7. Dinhata

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 2001

WB-DINHATA

FBL 53.0%won by 14.4%AITC 38.7%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: FBS (FBS) lost it to FBL (FBL), which now leads by 14.4%.

  • FBL vote shareFBL went from 26.4% to 53.0% of the vote here (+26.7%).
  • New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 38.7% — it did not contest here in 1996.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.7% of the vote between them, up from 75.9% — a tighter two-way contest.

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
1,37,398
Margin
19,720
14.35%

Candidates

7 contested · winner FBL
  1. 1KAMAL GUHAFBL · FBL72,88753.0%
  2. 2DIPAK SENGUPTAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC53,16738.7%
  3. 3MADAN MOHAN GOSWAMIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,7683.5%
  4. 4DEBASISH BARMANBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,2711.7%
  5. 5JIBAN KRISHNA SAHANationalist Congress Party · NCP1,7291.3%
  6. 6DINESH CHANDRA KARJIIndependent · IND1,4241.0%
  7. 7KABITA DASIndependent · IND1,1520.8%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
FBS
Winner now
FBLflipped
FBL–AITC swing
−12.0%
FBL share
26.4% → 53.0%
AITC share
0.0% → 38.7%
Turnout
— → —
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