Constituency
226. Keshiari
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-KESHIARI
CPM 60.9%won by 32.7%AITC 28.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 41.7% to 32.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 28.1% — 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
1,25,345
Margin
41,047
32.75%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1MAHESWAR MURMUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM76,27860.9%
- 2SHYAM MANDIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC35,23128.1%
- 3PANCHANAN HANSDABharatiya Janata Party · BJP13,83611.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −34.2%
- CPM share
- 67.0% → 60.9%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 28.1%
- Turnout
- — → —