Constituency
123. Mathurapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-MATHURAPUR
CPM 46.4%won by 1.7%AITC 44.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 1.7%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 44.7% — 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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Turnout
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Valid votes
1,39,151
Margin
2,381
1.71%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1KANTI GANGULYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM64,60946.4%
- 2SATYA RANJAN BAPULIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC62,22844.7%
- 3SAHADEV NASKARIndependent · IND8,2225.9%
- 4GOLAM MUSTAFABharatiya Janata Party · BJP2,5531.8%
- 5RAJIB BANERJEENationalist Congress Party · NCP8040.6%
- 6CHITTA RANJAN MANDALIndependent · IND7350.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–AITC swing
- −42.0%
- CPM share
- 43.7% → 46.4%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 44.7%
- Turnout
- — → —