Constituency
20. Jalpaiguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-JALPAIGURI
FBL 46.7%won by 2.4%AITC 44.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to FBL (FBL), which now leads by 2.4%.
- FBL vote shareFBL went from 40.5% to 46.7% of the vote here (+6.2%).
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 44.3% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 91.0% of the vote between them, up from 84.4% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,08,453
Margin
2,582
2.38%
Candidates
5 contested · winner FBL- 1GOBINDA ROYFBL · FBL50,65946.7%
- 2ANUPAM SENAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC48,07744.3%
- 3DWIPENDRA NATH PRAMANIKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,6004.2%
- 4BHIM CH. ROYIndependent · IND3,2393.0%
- 5SUBRATA DUTTA GUPTAIndependent · IND1,8781.7%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- FBLflipped
- FBL–AITC swing
- −38.1%
- FBL share
- 40.5% → 46.7%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 44.3%
- Turnout
- — → —