Constituency
34. Itahar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-ITAHAR
CPI 42.3%won by 15.3%NCP 27.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.4% to 15.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.8% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerNationalist Congress Party (NCP) finished second with 27.0% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 69.2% between them, down from 93.6% — 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
1,29,208
Margin
19,766
15.30%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPI- 1SRIKUMAR MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India · CPI54,60542.3%
- 2ABEDIN DR. ZAINALNationalist Congress Party · NCP34,83927.0%
- 3AMAL ACHARJEEIndian National Congress · INC33,87326.2%
- 4PRADYUT SARKARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,3202.6%
- 5HOSSEN EBADATCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,4101.1%
- 6TAFIJUDDINPDS · PDS1,1610.9%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–NCP swing
- −31.7%
- CPI share
- 47.0% → 42.3%
- NCP share
- 0.0% → 27.0%
- Turnout
- — → —