Constituency
24. Kurseong
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-KURSEONG
GNLF 53.3%won by 29.6%CPM 23.7%
What changed here
DerivedGNLF held the seat; the winning margin widened from 17.2% to 29.6%.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.0% between them, down from 91.2% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatGNLF won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
1,04,393
Margin
30,901
29.60%
Candidates
4 contested · winner GNLF- 1SHANTA CHETTRIGNLF · GNLF55,63053.3%
- 2TULSI BHATTRAICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM24,72923.7%
- 3PRADIP PRADHANIndependent · IND14,85414.2%
- 4BALARAM CHHETRIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,1808.8%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- GNLF
- Winner now
- GNLF
- GNLF–CPM swing
- +12.4%
- GNLF share
- 54.2% → 53.3%
- CPM share
- 37.0% → 23.7%
- Turnout
- — → —