Constituency
289. Mahammad Bazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 2001
WB-MAHAMMAD-BAZAR
CPM 51.5%won by 15.0%AITC 36.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin narrowed from 23.3% to 15.0%.
- Won on a lower shareIts own vote share fell 4.9% — it held because the rest of the vote was more divided.
- New challengerAll India Trinamool Congress (AITC) finished second with 36.5% — 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
1,11,815
Margin
16,813
15.04%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1DHIREN SENCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM57,60751.5%
- 2SAILEN MAHATAAll India Trinamool Congress · AITC40,79436.5%
- 3KASHI NATH MONDALBharatiya Janata Party · BJP9,6258.6%
- 4MAHAMMAD KUDDUS ALIIndependent · IND2,1031.9%
- 5CHANDRADHAR PALIndependent · IND1,6861.5%
Since 1996
Derived- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–AITC swing
- −41.4%
- CPM share
- 56.4% → 51.5%
- AITC share
- 0.0% → 36.5%
- Turnout
- — → —