Constituency
70. Palashipara
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-PALASHIPARA
CPM 43.0%won by 1.2%AITC 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 8.6% to 1.2%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 41.8% — 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
1,32,928
Margin
1,581
1.19%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1KAMALENDU SANYALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM57,17643.0%
- 2TAPAS KUMAR SAHAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC55,59541.8%
- 3ASHUTOSH PAULBharatiya Janata Party · BJP12,6079.5%
- 4JAKIMUDDIN SHEIKHIndependent · IND2,8122.1%
- 5SHEIKH DOULAT HOSSIENNationalist Congress Party · NCP2,4971.9%
- 6KHODABOX MALITHYAPDS · PDS1,4711.1%
- 7ANANDA MOHAN SARKARIndependent · IND7700.6%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −46.1%
- CPM share
- 47.3% → 43.0%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- — → —