Constituency
36. Tapan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-TAPAN
RSP 49.3%won by 7.5%AITC 41.9%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.0% to 7.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 41.9% — 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
1,19,369
Margin
8,899
7.46%
Candidates
5 contested · winner RSP- 1KHARA SORENRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP58,89249.3%
- 2ANTONY URAWAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC49,99341.9%
- 3PANCHALI ORAONBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,1015.9%
- 4SUKUMAR EKKAIndependent · IND1,8651.6%
- 5MATILAL HANSDABahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,5181.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–AITC swing
- −46.5%
- RSP share
- 53.9% → 49.3%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 41.9%
- Turnout
- — → —