Constituency
230. Gopiballavpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-GOPIBALLAVPUR
CPM 60.2%won by 34.8%AITC 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 45.5% to 34.8%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 25.4% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- 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
1,12,469
Margin
39,120
34.78%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1BHABANI SANKAR HATIALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM67,73860.2%
- 2SAMAY MANDIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC28,61825.4%
- 3SANTOSH RANAIndependent · IND9,4308.4%
- 4SUDHANGSHU GHORAIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,5264.9%
- 5MALIN MAHATAIndependent · IND1,1571.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −28.4%
- CPM share
- 63.2% → 60.2%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- — → —