Constituency
246. Ranibandh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-RANIBANDH
CPM 57.8%won by 37.0%JMM 20.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 31.0% to 37.0%.
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Indian National Congress (INC) to Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM).
- 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
93,799
Margin
34,741
37.04%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1MAKAR TUDUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM54,18657.8%
- 2GOPINATH SARENJharkhand Mukti Morcha · JMM19,44520.7%
- 3SAMIRAN MANDIBharatiya Janata Party · BJP11,27412.0%
- 4JAGANNATH TUDUJKPN · JKPN4,8905.2%
- 5KALIRAM SORENIndependent · IND3,0153.2%
- 6BIBHUTI HANSDAJan Kalyan Party · JKP9891.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–JMM swing
- −11.9%
- CPM share
- 55.9% → 57.8%
- JMM share
- 6.9% → 20.7%
- Turnout
- — → —