Constituency
245. Raipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-RAIPUR
CPM 56.4%won by 30.9%IND 25.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 34.0% to 30.9%.
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 25.4% — it polled just 0.5% in 1996.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- Multi-cornered4 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
1,18,792
Margin
36,756
30.94%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1UPEN KISKUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM66,97356.4%
- 2KSHETRA MOHAN HANSDAIndependent · IND30,21725.4%
- 3RAMKRISHNA MURMUBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,5168.0%
- 4LALU HANSDAJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM8,2256.9%
- 5SAMBHUNATH HEMBRAMIndependent · IND3,8613.3%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–IND swing
- −24.1%
- CPM share
- 55.5% → 56.4%
- IND share
- 0.5% → 25.4%
- Turnout
- — → —