Constituency
40. Gajol
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-GAJOL
CPM 48.5%won by 17.0%AITC 31.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.9% to 17.0%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 31.5% — 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
1,15,920
Margin
19,708
17.00%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SADHU TUDUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM56,21448.5%
- 2NABAKUMAR HEMBROMAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC36,50631.5%
- 3SHYAM MURMUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,54415.1%
- 4SHIBANANDA SARENIndependent · IND2,2331.9%
- 5BISHU HANSDAIndependent · IND2,0461.8%
- 6LALU HANSDAIndependent · IND1,3771.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −30.6%
- CPM share
- 47.6% → 48.5%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 31.5%
- Turnout
- — → —