Constituency
272. Khandaghosh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-KHANDAGHOSH
CPM 65.4%won by 36.8%AITC 28.6%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 38.8% to 36.8%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 28.6% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Safe seatCommunist Party of India (Marxist) won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
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
1,24,099
Margin
45,653
36.79%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1JYOTSNA SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM81,19565.4%
- 2BANSHI BADAN ROYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC35,54228.6%
- 3BASUDEV MALIKBharatiya Janata Party · BJP5,5614.5%
- 4LAKSHAN SANTRAIndependent · IND1,8011.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −29.6%
- CPM share
- 66.4% → 65.4%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 28.6%
- Turnout
- — → —