Constituency
266. Kanksa
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-KANKSA
CPM 60.0%won by 30.8%INC 29.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 36.1% to 30.8%.
- 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
1,24,869
Margin
38,402
30.75%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- −5.4%
- CPM share
- 61.7% → 60.0%
- INC share
- 25.5% → 29.2%
- Turnout
- — → —