Constituency
240. Para
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-PARA
CPM 57.6%won by 24.5%AITC 33.1%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 40.8% to 24.5%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 33.1% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 90.6% of the vote between them, up from 78.2% — 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
1,06,082
Margin
25,992
24.50%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1BILASIBALA SAHISCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM61,07757.6%
- 2MIRA BAURIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC35,08533.1%
- 3PARESH BOURIIndependent · IND4,4584.2%
- 4GOUR RAJWARIndependent · IND2,9232.8%
- 5TARA DASSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2,5392.4%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −35.0%
- CPM share
- 59.5% → 57.6%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 33.1%
- Turnout
- — → —