Constituency
13. Falakata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-FALAKATA
CPM 50.7%won by 14.1%AITC 36.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin held roughly steady from 14.3% to 14.1%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 36.5% — 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,20,361
Margin
17,023
14.14%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1JOGESH CHANDRA BARMANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM61,00050.7%
- 2ANIL ADHIKARYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC43,97736.5%
- 3JAYANTA KUMAR ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,4125.3%
- 4NAGENDRA NATH RAYIndependent · IND5,2234.3%
- 5MALIN CHANDRA SARKARPDS · PDS2,5762.1%
- 6TARANI ROYIndependent · IND1,1731.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −38.9%
- CPM share
- 53.0% → 50.7%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 36.5%
- Turnout
- — → —