Constituency
9. Tufanganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-TUFANGANJ
CPM 58.5%won by 29.4%AITC 29.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 22.1% to 29.4%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 29.1% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- 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
1,21,178
Margin
35,685
29.45%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1PUSHPA CHANDRA DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM70,90958.5%
- 2SACHINDRA CHANDRA DASAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC35,22429.1%
- 3MALATI RAVABharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,6127.9%
- 4SACHINDRA NATH BARMAIndependent · IND3,2622.7%
- 5TAREN BARDARIndependent · IND1,3011.1%
- 6DHIRENDRA KUMAR DASIndependent · IND8700.7%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −25.3%
- CPM share
- 54.8% → 58.5%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 29.1%
- Turnout
- — → —