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31. Raiganj

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 2001

WB-RAIGANJ

INC 46.4%won by 6.7%CPM 39.6%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.6% to 6.7%.

  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 86.0% of the vote between them, up from 76.8% — a tighter two-way contest.
  • Multi-cornered3 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,43,570
Margin
9,685
6.75%

Candidates

8 contested · winner INC
  1. 1CHITTARANJAN ROYIndian National Congress · INC66,55546.4%
  2. 2HARINARAYAN ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM56,87039.6%
  3. 3MANMOHAN ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,3017.2%
  4. 4AJIT DASCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL4,6743.3%
  5. 5SUKUMAL BISWASIndependent · IND1,8381.3%
  6. 6BINOY KUMAR MALLICKIndependent · IND1,2930.9%
  7. 7SUBHAS BALABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,1270.8%
  8. 8MALIN CHANDRA BARMANSWJP · SWJP9120.6%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CPM swing
+5.1%
INC share
39.2% → 46.4%
CPM share
37.6% → 39.6%
Turnout
— → —
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