Constituency
95. Basirhat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-BASIRHAT
CPM 46.4%won by 20.5%AITC 25.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 0.1% to 20.5%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 25.9% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.3% between them, down from 89.4% — 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
1,35,026
Margin
27,720
20.53%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1NARAYAN MUKHERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM62,69646.4%
- 2SOUREN SENAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC34,97625.9%
- 3BIBHU CHATTOPADHYAYIndependent · IND23,83117.6%
- 4NARAYAN CHANDRA MANDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP10,9968.1%
- 5GAZI SAHADAT ALIPDS · PDS2,5271.9%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −24.2%
- CPM share
- 44.8% → 46.4%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 25.9%
- Turnout
- — → —