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260. Asansol

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 2001

WB-ASANSOL

AITC 47.6%won by 2.0%CPM 45.5%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 2.0%.

  • AITC vote shareAITC went from 0.0% to 47.6% of the vote here (+47.6%).
  • 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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not in source
Turnout
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not in source
Valid votes
1,08,031
Margin
2,213
2.05%

Candidates

4 contested · winner AITC
  1. 1KALYAN BANERJEEAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC51,42047.6%
  2. 2GOUTAM ROYCHOUDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM49,20745.5%
  3. 3SHANKAR PRASAD CHOUDHURYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,5615.1%
  4. 4DINESH DUTTAIndependent · IND1,8431.7%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
INC
Winner now
AITCflipped
AITC–CPM swing
+42.2%
AITC share
0.0% → 47.6%
CPM share
40.2% → 45.5%
Turnout
— → —
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