Constituency
271. Burdwan South
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-BURDWAN-SOUTH
CPM 53.4%won by 14.1%AITC 39.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.7% to 14.1%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 39.3% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- 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
1,73,101
Margin
24,327
14.05%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1NIRUPAM SENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM92,35853.4%
- 2PARESH CHANDRA SARKARAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC68,03139.3%
- 3NARESH KONARBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,7235.6%
- 4BANDANA NANDIPDS · PDS2,9891.7%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −36.5%
- CPM share
- 50.6% → 53.4%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 39.3%
- Turnout
- — → —