EElectionLens
Constituency

22. Kalimpong

Community mirror

West Bengal Assembly Election, 2001

WB-KALIMPONG

GNLF 57.7%won by 27.7%IND 29.9%

What changed here

Derived

GNLF held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.4% to 27.7%.

  • Runner-up changedSecond place passed from ABGL (ABGL) to Independent (IND).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 87.6% of the vote between them, up from 73.9% — a tighter two-way contest.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
90,145
Margin
25,004
27.74%

Candidates

4 contested · winner GNLF
  1. 1GOULAN LEPCHAGNLF · GNLF51,98357.7%
  2. 2NORDEN LAMAIndependent · IND26,97929.9%
  3. 3MOHAN SINGH RAI (DUKHUN)Communist Party of India · CPI6,3807.1%
  4. 4CHATER LESLIE JOHNBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,8035.3%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
GNLF
Winner now
GNLF
GNLF–IND swing
−16.8%
GNLF share
55.1% → 57.7%
IND share
10.6% → 29.9%
Turnout
— → —
21. Rajganj23. Darjeeling
Back to the WB Assembly 2001 explorer