Constituency
85. Bongaon
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-BONGAON
CPM 44.9%won by 14.8%IND 30.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.2% to 14.8%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 30.1% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 75.0% between them, down from 94.5% — 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
1,48,147
Margin
21,966
14.83%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1PANKAJ GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM66,56144.9%
- 2BHUPENDRA NATH SETHIndependent · IND44,59530.1%
- 3PROSANTO NATHAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC26,56717.9%
- 4KISHORE BISWASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,5463.1%
- 5KALYAN MALLICKBahujan Samaj Party · BSP3,2682.2%
- 6ASHOKE GHOSHPDS · PDS1,4241.0%
- 7ASHIM BISWASAMB · AMB1,1860.8%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −33.0%
- CPM share
- 47.8% → 44.9%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 30.1%
- Turnout
- — → —