Constituency
17. Mainaguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-MAINAGURI
RSP 45.9%won by 14.6%AITC 31.3%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.4% to 14.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 8.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 31.3% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.2% 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
1,20,348
Margin
17,539
14.57%
Candidates
7 contested · winner RSP- 1BACHCHAMOHAN ROYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP55,23845.9%
- 2PURNAPRABHA BARMANAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC37,69931.3%
- 3NIKHIL KUMAR ROYIndependent · IND15,65613.0%
- 4RABIN SARKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,1445.1%
- 5SURESH CH. ROYIndependent · IND2,8172.3%
- 6RUPESHWAR ROYCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,5871.3%
- 7SANAT ROYAMB · AMB1,2071.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–AITC swing
- −39.7%
- RSP share
- 54.2% → 45.9%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 31.3%
- Turnout
- — → —