Constituency
73. Chapra
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-CHAPRA
CPM 44.9%won by 3.1%AITC 41.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 10.1% to 3.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.0% — 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
1,29,109
Margin
4,028
3.12%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SHAMSUL ISLAM MOLLAHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM57,94144.9%
- 2JULFIKAR KHANAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC53,91341.8%
- 3KANCHAN MAITRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,4355.0%
- 4KAZI MD. YASINSamajwadi Party · SP4,9053.8%
- 5ASIT KUMAR SAHAIndependent · IND2,6022.0%
- 6ABUKKAR (ABU BAKKAR) SEKHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,2171.7%
- 7ARUN BISWASIndependent · IND1,0960.8%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −46.7%
- CPM share
- 49.9% → 44.9%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 41.8%
- Turnout
- — → —