Constituency
259. Hirapur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-HIRAPUR
AITC 46.5%won by 24.3%IND 22.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 24.3%.
- AITC vote shareAITC went from 0.0% to 46.5% of the vote here (+46.5%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Janata Dal (JD) to Independent (IND).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 68.8% of the vote between them, up from 60.1% — 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
92,899
Margin
22,534
24.26%
Candidates
9 contested · winner AITC- 1MALAY GHATAKAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC43,22646.5%
- 2DILIP GHOSH (KHAYRUDDIN BLOCK)Independent · IND20,69222.3%
- 3SOHRAB ALIRashtriya Janata Dal · RJD17,28918.6%
- 4PAWAN KUMAR SINGHBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,7215.1%
- 5BHAGABAT KUMAR BANIKIndependent · IND1,9322.1%
- 6MRITUNJOY MUKHERJEEPDS · PDS1,7381.9%
- 7DILIP GHOSH (CHAPRIDE)Independent · IND1,3991.5%
- 8SOMNATH BANDHAPADHAYNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,0571.1%
- 9MUMTAJ HASSANJanata Dal (United) · JDU8450.9%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- AITCflipped
- AITC–IND swing
- +34.3%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 46.5%
- IND share
- 10.0% → 22.3%
- Turnout
- — → —