Constituency
222. Salbani
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-SALBANI
CPM 55.3%won by 20.7%AITC 34.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.7% to 20.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 34.6% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 89.9% of the vote between them, up from 83.8% — 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
1,13,187
Margin
23,455
20.72%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1KHAGENDRA NATH MAHATACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM62,60155.3%
- 2DINEN ROYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC39,14634.6%
- 3AMULYA RATAN MAHATOIndependent · IND5,5314.9%
- 4MAHATA KSHAMANANDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,4773.1%
- 5SK. MOTIBULIndependent · IND1,4391.3%
- 6AMARENDRA NATH MANDALIndependent · IND9930.9%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −39.5%
- CPM share
- 60.2% → 55.3%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 34.6%
- Turnout
- — → —