Constituency
154. Taltola
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-TALTOLA
CPM 47.0%won by 1.1%AITC 45.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 13.5% to 1.1%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 45.9% — it did not contest here in 1996.
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
78,760
Margin
834
1.06%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1DEBESH DASCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM37,02347.0%
- 2DILIP KUMAR DASAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC36,18945.9%
- 3KRISHNA PADA MAJUMDARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,0913.9%
- 4VINOD HELAIndependent · IND1,0221.3%
- 5SUMANTA KUMAR HIRAPBGM · PBGM5510.7%
- 6SUKUMAR MONDALIndependent · IND3510.4%
- 7NARAYAN SAHAIndependent · IND1870.2%
- 8BIPLAB DASIndependent · IND1760.2%
- 9SUDHIR KUMAR BISHRAMIndependent · IND1700.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −52.6%
- CPM share
- 53.6% → 47.0%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 45.9%
- Turnout
- — → —