Constituency
59. Jalangi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-JALANGI
CPM 47.8%won by 4.7%INC 43.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 14.2% to 4.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.5% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- 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
1,44,907
Margin
6,825
4.71%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1UNUS ALI SARKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM69,28847.8%
- 2SUBRATA SAHAIndian National Congress · INC62,46343.1%
- 3BIDYUT MAJKURIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,4905.2%
- 4AHIA MONDALIndependent · IND2,5301.7%
- 5MOHAMMED ABDULLAH AL QUAFIPDS · PDS2,3311.6%
- 6JOGESH CHANDRA SARKARAMB · AMB8050.6%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −9.5%
- CPM share
- 53.3% → 47.8%
- INC share
- 39.1% → 43.1%
- Turnout
- — → —