Constituency
80. Ranaghat East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-RANAGHAT-EAST
CPM 45.3%won by 2.6%AITC 42.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 6.4% to 2.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 3.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 42.7% — 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
1,67,603
Margin
4,343
2.59%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1ASIM BALACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM75,97345.3%
- 2DR. RAMENDRA NATH BISWASAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC71,63042.7%
- 3RATAN SAHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,3137.9%
- 4MONMATHA BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,4661.5%
- 5SHYAMAPRASAD MONDALPDS · PDS1,6581.0%
- 6SHIBU MONDALIndependent · IND1,2520.7%
- 7NIRMAL BISWASIndependent · IND8680.5%
- 8ADHIKARY BIDYUTIndependent · IND4430.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −45.8%
- CPM share
- 48.4% → 45.3%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 42.7%
- Turnout
- — → —