Constituency
276. Kalna
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-KALNA
CPM 54.3%won by 17.1%AITC 37.2%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 12.0% to 17.1%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 37.2% — 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
1,46,265
Margin
24,953
17.06%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1ANJU KARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM79,40154.3%
- 2BANERJEE SRIDHARAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC54,44837.2%
- 3SHANKAR HALDERBharatiya Janata Party · BJP8,1355.6%
- 4HEMANTA MUKHERJEEPDS · PDS2,9322.0%
- 5JAGANNATH MONDALCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL1,3490.9%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −35.3%
- CPM share
- 52.4% → 54.3%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 37.2%
- Turnout
- — → —