Constituency
261. Raniganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-RANIGANJ
CPM 72.7%won by 54.0%INC 18.7%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 31.4% to 54.0%.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
1,15,868
Margin
62,576
54.01%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPMSince 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +22.6%
- CPM share
- 62.8% → 72.7%
- INC share
- 31.4% → 18.7%
- Turnout
- — → —