Constituency
37. Kumarganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-KUMARGANJ
CPM 49.0%won by 9.3%AITC 39.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.2% to 9.3%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 39.7% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.7% of the vote between them, up from 81.3% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,42,155
Margin
13,290
9.35%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1KHATUN MAFUJACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM69,66949.0%
- 2NANI GOPAL ROYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC56,37939.7%
- 3PRONOY ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,8548.3%
- 4SHIUNARAYAN BAHETIIndependent · IND1,2730.9%
- 5DINESH SARKARIndependent · IND1,0110.7%
- 6TULTULI DASIndependent · IND9860.7%
- 7NANDA SAHAIndependent · IND9830.7%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −36.9%
- CPM share
- 46.2% → 49.0%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 39.7%
- Turnout
- — → —