Constituency
25. Siliguri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-SILIGURI
CPM 48.0%won by 12.5%AITC 35.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 28.2% to 12.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 35.6% — it did not contest here in 1996.
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
1,83,431
Margin
22,881
12.47%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1ASOK BHATTACHARYACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM88,11048.0%
- 2PRASANTA NANDYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC65,22935.6%
- 3DHRUBA BOMZONGNLF · GNLF11,1386.1%
- 4GOBINDA CHATTERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,4174.6%
- 5MOHAN CHHETRIIndependent · IND5,8463.2%
- 6BIMAL DUTTABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,9641.1%
- 7TAPAN CHAKRABORTYCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,6600.9%
- 8GOBINDA SARKARIndependent · IND1,0670.6%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −42.8%
- CPM share
- 55.3% → 48.0%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 35.6%
- Turnout
- — → —