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265. Durgapur-Ii

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West Bengal Assembly Election, 2001

WB-DURGAPUR-II

AITC 49.5%won by 5.0%CPM 44.5%

What changed here

Derived

The seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) lost it to All India Trinamool Congress (AITC), which now leads by 5.0%.

  • AITC vote shareAITC went from 0.0% to 49.5% of the vote here (+49.5%).
  • Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 94.0% of the vote between them, up from 87.0% — a tighter two-way contest.

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
1,89,652
Margin
9,479
5.00%

Candidates

4 contested · winner AITC
  1. 1APURBA MUKHERJEEAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC93,84049.5%
  2. 2DEBABRATA BANERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM84,36144.5%
  3. 3SOMENATH BANNERJEEBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,1724.3%
  4. 4BHASKAR ROY CHOWDHURYIndependent · IND3,2791.7%

Since 1996

Derived
Winner then
CPM
Winner now
AITCflipped
AITC–CPM swing
+55.8%
AITC share
0.0% → 49.5%
CPM share
50.8% → 44.5%
Turnout
— → —
264. Durgapur-I266. Kanksa
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