Constituency
256. Sonamukhi
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-SONAMUKHI
CPM 54.0%won by 16.1%AITC 37.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 21.4% to 16.1%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 37.9% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Multi-cornered3 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
1,17,929
Margin
18,951
16.07%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1KHAN SUKHENDUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM63,70254.0%
- 2DIPALI SAHAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC44,75137.9%
- 3LOHAR HARISADHANBharatiya Janata Party · BJP7,2316.1%
- 4TARANI ROYIndependent · IND2,2451.9%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −40.1%
- CPM share
- 56.2% → 54.0%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 37.9%
- Turnout
- — → —