Constituency
279. Purbasthali
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-PURBASTHALI
CPM 47.5%won by 11.1%AITC 36.4%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 15.4% to 11.1%.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 36.4% — 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
1,32,642
Margin
14,745
11.12%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SUBRATA BHOWALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM63,02647.5%
- 2ANSAR MONDALAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC48,28136.4%
- 3BIPUL DASBharatiya Janata Party · BJP15,36411.6%
- 4NIMAI CHANDRA GHOSHPDS · PDS3,1862.4%
- 5ASIM KUMAR ROYCpi(M (L)L) · CPIMLL2,7852.1%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −36.4%
- CPM share
- 47.5% → 47.5%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 36.4%
- Turnout
- — → —