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Constituency

23. Darjeeling

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 2001

WB-DARJEELING

GNLF 63.5%won by 43.0%IND 20.5%

What changed here

Derived

GNLF held the seat; the winning margin widened from 25.2% to 43.0%.

  • New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 20.5% — it polled just 0.7% in 1996.
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.6% — a tighter two-way contest.

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

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
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Valid votes
1,05,277
Margin
45,263
42.99%

Candidates

5 contested · winner GNLF
  1. 1D.K. PRADHANGNLF · GNLF66,83963.5%
  2. 2SAWAN RAIIndependent · IND21,57620.5%
  3. 3K.B.WATTERCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,6949.2%
  4. 4PARVATI PRADHANIndian National Congress · INC4,4454.2%
  5. 5KISHORE CHANDRA RAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,7232.6%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
GNLF
Winner now
GNLF
GNLF–IND swing
−7.2%
GNLF share
50.9% → 63.5%
IND share
0.7% → 20.5%
Turnout
— → —
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