Constituency
157. Vidyasagar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-VIDYASAGAR
CPM 51.5%won by 5.9%AITC 45.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 5.9%.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 42.2% to 51.5% of the vote here (+9.4%).
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 45.6% — 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
65,947
Margin
3,891
5.90%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1LAKSHMI KANTA DEYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM33,99451.5%
- 2MAHUA MONDALAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC30,10345.6%
- 3BHAGWAN DAS AGARWALIndependent · IND5270.8%
- 4SEPHALI RANI SAHAIndependent · IND4650.7%
- 5LAKSHMI NARAYAN BISWASIndependent · IND2000.3%
- 6RATNA BOSEIndependent · IND1750.3%
- 7SASHI AGARWALIndependent · IND1730.3%
- 8JITENDRA NATH BANERJEEIndependent · IND1710.3%
- 9DIPAK SENIndependent · IND1390.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–AITC swing
- −36.3%
- CPM share
- 42.2% → 51.5%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 45.6%
- Turnout
- — → —