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Constituency result · Vidhan Sabha · 2001

Santipur

Assembly constituency 78 (GEN) · West Bengal

State boardWest Bengal 2001

[01]Result · 2001

#78 · GEN
Poll dateNot recordedNo poll date in the source
Contestants4
Electors1,91,804
Votes polled1,60,812
Turnout83.8%
NOTADid not existIntroduced in 2013
WinnerAjoy DeyIndian National Congress69,11743.0% of votes
MARGIN21,576 votes · 13.4 pp69,117 − 47,541
Runner-upBadal Basak Independent47,54129.6% of votes
INC 59.2% of top-two votesIND 40.8%

All candidates 4

  1. 01 Ajoy DeyINC69,117 43.0%
  2. 02 Badal BasakIND47,541 29.6%
  3. 03 Kumaresh ChakrabortyBJP37,576 23.4%
  4. 04 Asim GhoshRCPIR6,527 4.1%

Turnout 83.8%

025507510083.8%TURNOUT◦ state median 77.3%
Male 99,98652.1% Female 91,81847.9%

Share of 1,91,804 electors

  • Sex ratiofemales per 1,000 males918
  • NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
  • State median turnoutmedian of 294 seats, 200177.3%
  • ReconciliationΣ 4 candidates = 1,60,761Residual 51

Seat history 2026–1962

  1. 2026
    12.1 pp
    Subrata KabirajBharatiya Janata Party
  2. 2021
    3.2 pp
    Tapas Kumar SahaAll India Trinamool Congress
  3. 2016
    8.8 pp
    Gouri Sankar DuttaAll India Trinamool Congress
  4. 2011
    10.9 pp
    Ranjit Kumar MandalCommunist Party of India (Marxist)
  5. 2006
    1.1 pp
    Ajoy DeyIndian National Congress
  6. 2001
    13.4 pp
    Ajoy DeyIndian National Congress
  7. 1996
    6.3 pp
    Ajoy DeIndian National Congress
  8. 1991
    1.1 pp
    Ajoy DeyIndian National Congress
  9. 1987
    4.6 pp
    Bimalananda MukherjeeIndependent
  10. 1982
    9.4 pp
    Bimalananda MukherjeeIndependent
  11. 1977
    27.1 pp
    Bimalananda MukherjeeRevolutionary Communist Party Of India
  12. 1972
    26.6 pp
    Apurba Lal MazumderIndependent
  13. 1971
    13.0 pp
    Apurba Lal MajumderAll India Forward Bloc
  14. 1969
    13.6 pp
    Apurba Lal MajumdarAll India Forward Bloc
  15. 1967
    42.2 pp
    A.L.MajumdarAll India Forward Bloc
  16. 1962
    18.7 pp
    Jyoti BasuCommunist Party of India

Winning margin in percentage points; bars scaled to the widest, 42.2 pp.

[02]Computed insights

Arithmetic · working shown

  1. Third-placed BJP polled 37,576 votes, 1.7× the 21,576-vote margin.

    37,576 ÷ 21,576 = 1.7

  2. The top two polled 72.5% of votes; the other 2 candidates 27.4% between them.

    (69,117 + 47,541) ÷ 1,60,812 = 72.5% · 44,103 ÷ 1,60,812 = 27.4%

  3. Turnout of 83.8% was 6.5 pp above the state's median seat (77.3%).

    83.8 − 77.3 = +6.5

  4. The margin widened from 6.3 pp in 1996 to 13.4 pp.

    13.4 − 6.3 = +7.1 pp

  5. INC held the seat it won in 1996.

    1996 INC · 2001 INC

Each line is arithmetic over the figures on this page.

[03]Reconciliation

Reconciliation failed
  • Candidate votesΣ 4 candidate lines1,60,761
  • NOTAintroduced in 2013Did not exist
  • Published totalVotes polled1,60,812
  • Checkneither convention holdsResidual 51

Candidate votes miss the published total by 51, 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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