Constituency
88. Ashokenagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-ASHOKENAGAR
CPM 45.2%won by 1.2%AITC 44.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.5% to 1.2%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 44.0% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.2% of the vote between them, up from 76.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
1,42,283
Margin
1,709
1.20%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SARMISTA DUTTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM64,28845.2%
- 2ASHOKE KRISHNA DUTTAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC62,57944.0%
- 3BADAL BHATTACHERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,1727.1%
- 4ARUN BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP2,4351.7%
- 5SADHAN GHOSHIndependent · IND1,6451.2%
- 6GOKUL SAHAIndependent · IND1,1640.8%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −43.9%
- CPM share
- 45.1% → 45.2%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 44.0%
- Turnout
- — → —