Constituency
38. Balurghat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-BALURGHAT
RSP 47.4%won by 2.4%AITC 45.0%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 7.5% to 2.4%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 45.0% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,13,803
Margin
2,723
2.39%
Candidates
4 contested · winner RSP- 1CHOUDHURY BISWANATHRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP53,94547.4%
- 2SHANKAR CHAKRAVORTIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC51,22245.0%
- 3DILIP DEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,2735.5%
- 4BHAGIRATH BARMANIndependent · IND2,3632.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–AITC swing
- −45.5%
- RSP share
- 47.9% → 47.4%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 45.0%
- Turnout
- — → —