Constituency
164. Howrah South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-HOWRAH-SOUTH
CPM 52.5%won by 8.0%AITC 44.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.2% to 8.0%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 44.5% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 96.9% of the vote between them, up from 88.2% — 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
1,05,078
Margin
8,451
8.04%
Candidates
12 contested · winner CPM- 1BADAL BASUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM55,15952.5%
- 2ARUP ROYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC46,70844.5%
- 3SAMARENDRA PATRAIndependent · IND8330.8%
- 4MD. SALAHUDDINSamajwadi Party · SP7780.7%
- 5SITAL GHOSHIndependent · IND4780.5%
- 6SAYED HABIBUR RAHAMANLJNSP · LJNSP3210.3%
- 7RANJIT DASIndependent · IND1750.2%
- 8ALOKE BANERJEEIndependent · IND1450.1%
- 9TAPAN DUTTAIndependent · IND1270.1%
- 10UTTAM CHANDAIndependent · IND1250.1%
- 11ARUP LAHAIndependent · IND1220.1%
- 12NIRANJAN BISWASIndependent · IND1070.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −37.1%
- CPM share
- 45.2% → 52.5%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 44.5%
- Turnout
- — → —