Constituency
79. Hanskhali
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-HANSKHALI
CPM 45.8%won by 1.6%AITC 44.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 1.6%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 44.2% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 90.0% between them, down from 95.5% — 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
1,57,948
Margin
2,521
1.60%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1NAYAN SARKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM72,33445.8%
- 2ABIR RANJAN BISWASAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC69,81344.2%
- 3BISWAS SHASANKHA SHEKHORNationalist Congress Party · NCP5,7543.6%
- 4BISWANATH BISWASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,9882.5%
- 5SATISH CHANDRA BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,8132.4%
- 6MADHUSUDAN MONDALIndependent · IND1,2300.8%
- 7DINABANDHU BISWASIndependent · IND4730.3%
- 8ADHIR BISWASPDS · PDS2990.2%
- 9AMRITA SARKARIndependent · IND2440.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–AITC swing
- −44.3%
- CPM share
- 45.9% → 45.8%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 44.2%
- Turnout
- — → —