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Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2001

Balurghat

Assembly constituency 38 (GEN) · West Bengal

State boardWest Bengal 2001

[01]Result · 2001

#38 · GEN
Poll dateNot recordedNo poll date in the source
Contestants4
Electors1,41,161
Votes polled1,13,960
Turnout80.7%
NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013
WinnerChoudhury BiswanathRevolutionary Socialist Party53,94547.4% of votes
MARGIN2,723 votes · 2.4 pp53,945 − 51,222
Runner-upShankar Chakravorti All India Trinamool Congress51,22245.0% of votes
RSP 51.3% of top-two votesAITC 48.7%

All candidates 4

  1. 01 Choudhury BiswanathRSP53,945 47.4%
  2. 02 Shankar ChakravortiAITC51,222 45.0%
  3. 03 Dilip DeyBJP6,273 5.5%
  4. 04 Bhagirath BarmanIND2,363 2.1%

Turnout 80.7%

025507510080.7%TURNOUT◦ state median 77.3%
Male 73,36152.0% Female 67,80048.0%

Share of 1,41,161 electors

  • Sex ratiofemales per 1,000 males924
  • NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
  • State median turnoutmedian of 294 seats, 200177.3%
  • ReconciliationΣ 4 candidates = 1,13,803Residual 157

Seat history 2026–1962

  1. 2026
    3.8 pp
    Toraf Hossain MandalAll India Trinamool Congress
  2. 2021
    17.3 pp
    Toraf Hossain MandalAll India Trinamool Congress
  3. 2016
    2.3 pp
    Toraf Hossain MandalAll India Trinamool Congress
  4. 2011
    3.2 pp
    Begam MahamudaAll India Trinamool Congress
  5. 2006
    6.6 pp
    Biswanath ChoudhuryRevolutionary Socialist Party
  6. 2001
    2.4 pp
    Choudhury BiswanathRevolutionary Socialist Party
  7. 1996
    7.3 pp
    Choudhury BiswanathRevolutionary Socialist Party
  8. 1991
    7.3 pp
    Biswanath ChowdhuryRevolutionary Socialist Party
  9. 1987
    11.9 pp
    Biswanath ChoudhuryRevolutionary Socialist Party
  10. 1982
    11.6 pp
    Biswanath ChoudhuryRevolutionary Socialist Party
  11. 1977
    28.9 pp
    Biswanath ChoudhauriRevolutionary Socialist Party
  12. 1972
    1.3 pp
    Mahabubul HaqueIndian National Congress
  13. 1971
    11.8 pp
    Golam YazadaniCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
  14. 1969
    13.2 pp
    Golam YazdaniIndependent
  15. 1967
    13.2 pp
    G.YazdaniIndependent
  16. 1962
    6.9 pp
    Santigopal SenIndian National Congress

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 28.9 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. Third-placed BJP polled 6,273 votes, 2.3× the 2,723-vote margin.

    6,273 ÷ 2,723 = 2.3

  2. The top two polled 92.3% of votes; the other 2 candidates 7.6% between them.

    (53,945 + 51,222) ÷ 1,13,960 = 92.3% · 8,636 ÷ 1,13,960 = 7.6%

  3. Turnout of 80.7% was 3.4 pp above the state's median seat (77.3%).

    80.7 − 77.3 = +3.4

  4. The margin narrowed from 7.3 pp in 1996 to 2.4 pp.

    2.4 − 7.3 = −4.9 pp

  5. Choudhury Biswanath also won in 1996.

    1996 winner name = 2001 winner name

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed
  • Candidate votesΣ 4 candidate lines1,13,803
  • NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
  • Published totalVotes polled1,13,960
  • Checkneither convention holdsResidual 157

Candidate votes miss the published total by 157, with NOTA counted inside or outside it.

Contest resultElection Commission of India, constituency-wise results · Vidhan Sabha 2001 · West Bengal · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

Candidates4 candidate lines from the same results · reconciliation: Reconciliation failed

State median turnoutComputed from 294 seats on the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha 2001 board · retrieval date not recorded in the results database

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