Constituency
35. Gangarampur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-GANGARAMPUR
CPM 48.0%won by 3.8%AITC 44.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.8% to 3.8%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 44.2% — 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
1,60,091
Margin
6,116
3.82%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1NARAYAN BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM76,88348.0%
- 2BIPLAB MITRAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC70,76744.2%
- 3ASHIS MAJUMDERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,3125.8%
- 4GOUR BARMANIndependent · IND3,1292.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −51.8%
- CPM share
- 55.6% → 48.0%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 44.2%
- Turnout
- — → —