Constituency
273. Raina
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-RAINA
CPM 61.1%won by 30.9%AITC 30.3%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 37.4% to 30.9%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.1% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 30.3% — 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
1,28,090
Margin
39,544
30.87%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SHYAMA PROSAD PALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM78,29761.1%
- 2ARUP KUMAR DASAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC38,75330.3%
- 3ASHOK SANTRABharatiya Janata Party · BJP6,4675.0%
- 4NIRMAL KANTI GHOSHPDS · PDS3,0392.4%
- 5SOMNATH KARFAIndependent · IND1,5341.2%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −34.4%
- CPM share
- 65.2% → 61.1%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 30.3%
- Turnout
- — → —