Constituency
241. Raghunathpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-RAGHUNATHPUR
CPM 51.7%won by 14.9%AITC 36.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 16.0% to 14.9%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 36.8% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 88.5% of the vote between them, up from 82.7% — 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
88,796
Margin
13,228
14.90%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1UMA RANI BOURICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM45,91251.7%
- 2MAGARAM BOURIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC32,68436.8%
- 3BIJOY BAURIIndependent · IND5,5956.3%
- 4RAJDAYAL TURIIndependent · IND2,5482.9%
- 5UTTAM SAHASamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP2,0572.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −34.4%
- CPM share
- 49.3% → 51.7%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 36.8%
- Turnout
- — → —