Election
Constituency

98. Sandeshkhali

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 2001

WB-SANDESHKHALI

CPM 54.5%won by 22.7%AITC 31.9%

What changed here

Derived

Communist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 18.3% to 22.7%.

  • New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 31.9% — it did not contest here in 1996.
  • Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.

Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.

Electorate
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not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
1,19,587
Margin
27,104
22.66%

Candidates

3 contested · winner CPM
  1. 1KANTI BISWASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM65,21454.5%
  2. 2RANJIT KUMAR DASAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC38,11031.9%
  3. 3MANMATHA BACHHERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP16,26313.6%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
CPM
CPM–AITC swing
−32.0%
CPM share
54.6% → 54.5%
AITC share
0.0% → 31.9%
Turnout
— → —
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