Constituency
284. Bolpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-BOLPUR
RSP 53.3%won by 12.7%AITC 40.6%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 38.6% to 12.7%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 7.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 40.6% — it did not contest here in 1996.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 93.8% of the vote between them, up from 83.8% — a tighter two-way 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
1,21,336
Margin
15,433
12.72%
Candidates
5 contested · winner RSP- 1TAPAN HORERashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP64,63553.3%
- 2DR. SUSHOVAN BANERJEEAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC49,20240.6%
- 3DILIP KUMAR JHABharatiya Janata Party · BJP3,8133.1%
- 4SAILEN KUMAR MISRAIndependent · IND2,5702.1%
- 5KHODADAD MONDALJanahitha Paksha · JP1,1160.9%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–AITC swing
- −48.5%
- RSP share
- 61.2% → 53.3%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 40.6%
- Turnout
- — → —