Constituency
228. Dantan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-DANTAN
CPI 57.2%won by 25.5%AITC 31.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.1% to 25.5%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.6% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 31.8% — 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
1,24,870
Margin
31,782
25.45%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPI- 1NANDAGOPAL BHATTACHARYACommunist Party of India · CPI71,47257.2%
- 2BIKRAM CHANDRA PRADHANAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC39,69031.8%
- 3SASANKA PATRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,5829.3%
- 4JYOTIRMOY PRADHANPDS · PDS2,1261.7%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPI
- CPI–AITC swing
- −38.4%
- CPI share
- 63.8% → 57.2%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 31.8%
- Turnout
- — → —