Constituency
128. Bijpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-BIJPUR
CPM 78.0%won by 58.0%AITC 20.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 11.2% to 58.0%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 20.0% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a 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
1,31,133
Margin
76,020
57.97%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1JAGADISH CHANDRA DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM1,02,24978.0%
- 2JAGADISH DASAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC26,22920.0%
- 3SIKHA RANI BISWASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP9080.7%
- 4RAJMANGAL THAKURIndependent · IND6100.5%
- 5ARINJAY MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND4260.3%
- 6ATWARI DASSLJNSP · LJNSP3630.3%
- 7SALIL MAJUMDARPDS · PDS3480.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- +4.1%
- CPM share
- 53.9% → 78.0%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 20.0%
- Turnout
- — → —