Constituency
72. Kaliganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-KALIGANJ
RSP 36.7%won by 10.4%AITC 26.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP), which now leads by 10.4%.
- RSP vote shareRSP went from 41.5% to 36.7% of the vote here (−4.8%).
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 26.3% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.0% between them, down from 84.2% — the field split more ways.
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
1,20,813
Margin
12,522
10.36%
Candidates
7 contested · winner RSP- 1DHANANJOY MODAKRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP44,32836.7%
- 2ABDUS SALAM MUNSHIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC31,80626.3%
- 3URMIBALA MOOKHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP30,69625.4%
- 4JAFARULLA MOLLAMUL · MUL6,6195.5%
- 5HARROJ ALI SHAIKHIndependent · IND3,4672.9%
- 6KRISHNA PRAMANIKCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,1461.8%
- 7MIR FAKIR MOHAMMADIndependent · IND1,7511.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- RSPflipped
- RSP–AITC swing
- −31.1%
- RSP share
- 41.5% → 36.7%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 26.3%
- Turnout
- — → —