Constituency
221. Garhbeta West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-GARHBETA-WEST
CPM 73.5%won by 59.5%BJP 14.0%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 40.2% to 59.5%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered3 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
1,26,381
Margin
75,139
59.45%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1KRISHNA PRASAD DULEYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM92,85673.5%
- 2KALIPADA DULEYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP17,71714.0%
- 3BIMAN BISOHIIndependent · IND12,87210.2%
- 4JITEN KR. SAHAIndependent · IND2,9362.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–BJP swing
- +4.7%
- CPM share
- 62.3% → 73.5%
- BJP share
- 7.5% → 14.0%
- Turnout
- — → —