Constituency
26. Phansidewa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-PHANSIDEWA
CPM 47.5%won by 17.5%INC 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 10.9% to 17.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.4% between them, down from 90.7% — the field split more ways.
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
1,63,329
Margin
28,637
17.53%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1PRAKASH MINJCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM77,50747.5%
- 2MAMLA KUJURIndian National Congress · INC48,87029.9%
- 3CORNELIUS TIGGAIndependent · IND17,91511.0%
- 4RAM GANESH BARAIKIndependent · IND6,9774.3%
- 5SUKHDEO BHAGATBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,7233.5%
- 6AKUL MUNDAGNLF · GNLF4,4672.7%
- 7MAHENDRA ORAON (BHAGAT)Independent · IND1,8701.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +6.6%
- CPM share
- 50.8% → 47.5%
- INC share
- 39.9% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —