Constituency
257. Kulti
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-KULTI
FBL 46.7%won by 2.6%AITC 44.1%
What changed here
DerivedFBL held the seat; the winning margin widened from 1.6% to 2.6%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 44.1% — 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
94,946
Margin
2,470
2.60%
Candidates
6 contested · winner FBL- 1ACHARYA MANIKLALFBL · FBL44,29646.7%
- 2SUHRID BASUMALLICKAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC41,82644.1%
- 3SUBHAS SINGHSamajwadi Andolan Party · SAP4,9995.3%
- 4NIRAPADA ROYIndependent · IND1,8401.9%
- 5KALLOL KUMAR ROYIndependent · IND1,0911.1%
- 6KISHORE BHUINYAIndependent · IND8940.9%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- FBL
- Winner now
- FBL
- FBL–AITC swing
- −41.4%
- FBL share
- 44.0% → 46.7%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 44.1%
- Turnout
- — → —