Constituency
76. Krishnagar West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-KRISHNAGAR-WEST
CPM 45.3%won by 6.3%AITC 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.2% to 6.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.3% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 38.9% — 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
1,14,680
Margin
7,248
6.32%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SUNIL KUMAR GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM51,90945.3%
- 2UJJAL BISWASAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC44,66138.9%
- 3CHUNI LAL DATTABharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,60310.1%
- 4SUBIMAL SENGUPTACpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL4,7204.1%
- 5MOZIBOR RAHAMAN KHANRPI · RPI1,7871.6%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −44.2%
- CPM share
- 50.6% → 45.3%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- — → —