Constituency
161. Bally
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-BALLY
CPM 72.6%won by 47.3%INC 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 14.4% to 47.3%.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 98.0% of the vote between them, up from 86.7% — a tighter two-way contest.
- 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
1,27,870
Margin
60,453
47.28%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1KANIKA GANGULYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM92,87672.6%
- 2SUPRIYO BASUIndian National Congress · INC32,42325.4%
- 3MOUSUMNI CHATTERJEE (DUTTA)Nationalist Congress Party · NCP6260.5%
- 4SANTOSH ADHIKARYIndependent · IND6240.5%
- 5DEBALA DASIndependent · IND4180.3%
- 6MADAN MOHAN DASIndependent · IND3700.3%
- 7RAJ KHISOR PRASADIndependent · IND2030.2%
- 8FAKRA ALAMIndependent · IND1910.1%
- 9PRADIP KUMAR BASAKIndependent · IND1390.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +32.9%
- CPM share
- 50.5% → 72.6%
- INC share
- 36.2% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- — → —