Constituency
188. Balagarh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-BALAGARH
CPM 47.4%won by 4.6%AITC 42.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 11.8% to 4.6%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 42.8% — 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
1,25,391
Margin
5,722
4.56%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1DIBAKANTA ROUTHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM59,37647.4%
- 2LAKSHMI PARUIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC53,65442.8%
- 3NARAYAN MAJUMDERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,2004.9%
- 4TAPAN KUMAR DASPDS · PDS2,4672.0%
- 5PANCHANAN SADDARIndependent · IND1,9461.6%
- 6PROLAY BISWASCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,0390.8%
- 7BIVA BISWASNationalist Congress Party · NCP7090.6%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −47.7%
- CPM share
- 52.3% → 47.4%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 42.8%
- Turnout
- — → —