Constituency
243. Hura
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-HURA
CPM 50.6%won by 16.3%AITC 34.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 30.9% to 16.3%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 34.3% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 84.9% 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
1,00,251
Margin
16,389
16.35%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1ABINAS MAHATACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM50,73450.6%
- 2BIKASH CHANDRA MAHATOAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC34,34534.3%
- 3NATABAR BAGDIIndependent · IND6,4976.5%
- 4JAY BANDYOPADHYAYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,1244.1%
- 5MANTU MURMUIndependent · IND2,1832.2%
- 6UPENDRANATH MAHATOSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP1,3371.3%
- 7SAHADEB HEMBRAMAMB · AMB1,0311.0%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −38.2%
- CPM share
- 54.6% → 50.6%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 34.3%
- Turnout
- — → —