Constituency
119. Diamond Harbour
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-DIAMOND-HARBOUR
CPM 41.6%won by 2.3%AITC 39.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 2.3%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 39.3% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.9% 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
1,21,764
Margin
2,742
2.25%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1RISHI HALDARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM50,64841.6%
- 2AMJAD ALI SARDARAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC47,90639.3%
- 3ALI DAULAT SHEIKHNationalist Congress Party · NCP13,39511.0%
- 4AJIT MANDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,0124.1%
- 5TAMREJ SKPDS · PDS2,8572.3%
- 6DIPANKAR BASUIndependent · IND1,9461.6%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–AITC swing
- −40.1%
- CPM share
- 42.4% → 41.6%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 39.3%
- Turnout
- — → —