Constituency
220. Garhbeta East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-GARHBETA-EAST
CPM 78.3%won by 61.0%AITC 17.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 43.5% to 61.0%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 17.3% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 95.5% of the vote between them, up from 89.8% — 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
1,23,629
Margin
75,411
61.00%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1SUSANTA GHOSHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM96,74078.3%
- 2MD. RAFIQUEAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC21,32917.3%
- 3AKASH DIP SINHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,1043.3%
- 4HASEN MALLIKIndependent · IND1,4561.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −5.7%
- CPM share
- 66.7% → 78.3%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 17.3%
- Turnout
- — → —