Constituency
270. Burdwan North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-BURDWAN-NORTH
CPM 62.5%won by 33.1%INC 29.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 31.7% to 33.1%.
- 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
1,53,282
Margin
50,803
33.14%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1ADHIKARY NISITHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM95,86262.5%
- 2LAKSHMI NARAYAN NAYEKIndian National Congress · INC45,05929.4%
- 3BHISMADEB BHATTACHARAYABharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,3305.4%
- 4SUKHENDU KONERIndependent · IND1,4410.9%
- 5BISWANATH GHOSHCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,3590.9%
- 6KAZI MANOWAR HOSSAINJanahitha Paksha · JP1,2310.8%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +1.4%
- CPM share
- 62.5% → 62.5%
- INC share
- 30.8% → 29.4%
- Turnout
- — → —