Constituency
278. Manteswar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-MANTESWAR
CPM 52.5%won by 13.7%AITC 38.8%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 19.8% to 13.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 5.0% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 38.8% — 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
1,23,637
Margin
16,898
13.67%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1ABU AYES MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM64,89652.5%
- 2NARAYAN HAZRA CHOUDHURYAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC47,99838.8%
- 3TARIT KANTI ROYBharatiya Janata Party · BJP4,1573.4%
- 4ASIT BARAN ROYPDS · PDS2,1101.7%
- 5MIR MD. YEASINNationalist Congress Party · NCP1,2411.0%
- 6NABA KUMAR MUKHERJEEIndependent · IND1,1821.0%
- 7DR. DHANAPATI DASBahujan Samaj Party · BSP1,0740.9%
- 8ANNADA BHATTACHARYYACpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL9790.8%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −43.8%
- CPM share
- 57.5% → 52.5%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 38.8%
- Turnout
- — → —