Constituency
142. Jorabagan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-JORABAGAN
CPM 41.5%won by 5.3%AITC 36.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 5.3%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 34.8% to 41.5% of the vote here (+6.8%).
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 36.2% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 77.7% of the vote between them, up from 72.5% — a tighter two-way 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
45,121
Margin
2,402
5.32%
Candidates
13 contested · winner CPM- 1SUDHANGSHU SEALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM18,73841.5%
- 2SANJOY BAKSHIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC16,33636.2%
- 3SHANTI LAL JAINBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,72119.3%
- 4GOPAL TIWARIIndependent · IND4691.0%
- 5SWAPAN KUMAR BANERJEEIndependent · IND2810.6%
- 6AJIT CHOWDHURYIndependent · IND1600.4%
- 7SUBHASH ROYIndependent · IND1280.3%
- 8SUBHAS CHANDRA SHARMAIndependent · IND780.2%
- 9NARAYAN CHATTERJEEIndependent · IND560.1%
- 10JAG NARAYAN SINGHIndependent · IND450.1%
- 11DINESH KUMAR RATERIAIndependent · IND390.1%
- 12BIRENDRA KUMAR MODIIndependent · IND390.1%
- 13BISWABASU MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND310.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–AITC swing
- −29.5%
- CPM share
- 34.8% → 41.5%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 36.2%
- Turnout
- — → —