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32. Kaliaganj

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 2001

WB-KALIAGANJ

INC 44.1%won by 2.4%CPM 41.7%

What changed here

Derived

Indian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 3.8% to 2.4%.

  • 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
1,30,935
Margin
3,125
2.39%

Candidates

8 contested · winner INC
  1. 1PRAMATHANATH ROYIndian National Congress · INC57,69744.1%
  2. 2RAMANI KANTA DEB SARMACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM54,57241.7%
  3. 3AMAL KANTA BARMANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,6248.1%
  4. 4BINANDA BARMANCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,1671.7%
  5. 5BASANTA KUMAR ROYNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,8681.4%
  6. 6BISHNU PADA BARMANSWJP · SWJP1,4201.1%
  7. 7RABI KUMAR ROYIndependent · IND1,3501.0%
  8. 8NISHI KANTA ROYIndependent · IND1,2370.9%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
INC
INC–CPM swing
−1.5%
INC share
43.0% → 44.1%
CPM share
39.2% → 41.7%
Turnout
— → —
31. Raiganj33. Kushmandi
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