Constituency
268. Bhatar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-BHATAR
CPM 52.3%won by 13.4%AITC 38.9%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 26.0% to 13.4%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 6.7% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 38.9% — it did not contest here in 1996.
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
1,27,928
Margin
17,079
13.35%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SUBHAS MANDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM66,90252.3%
- 2HAZRA BANAMALIAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC49,82338.9%
- 3PRABAL ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,4425.0%
- 4FAZLUL KARIM CHOWDHURYPDS · PDS2,2051.7%
- 5GOUR HARI CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND1,4211.1%
- 6MUFTI MOHAMMAD ABU NASERNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,1350.9%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −45.6%
- CPM share
- 59.0% → 52.3%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 38.9%
- Turnout
- — → —