West Bengal assembly election, May 2001

294 assembly constituencies in West Bengal, 75.23% turnout.

Seats

294

Candidates

1,676

114 women, 28 elected

Turnout

75.23%

3.66 cr of 4.87 cr

Leading party

CPM

143 of 294 seats

Party performance

Ordered by seats won in West Bengal

Party	Won	+/−	Contested	Votes	Share	Share +/−
CPM Communist Party of India (Marxist)	143	-14	211	1,34,02,603	36.59%	-1.33
AITC All India Trinamool Congress	60	+60	226	1,12,29,396	30.66%	—
INC Indian National Congress	26	-56	60	29,21,151	7.98%	-31.50
FBL All India Forward Bloc	25	+4	34	20,67,944	5.65%	+0.45
RSP Revolutionary Socialist Party	17	-1	23	12,56,951	3.43%	-0.29
IND Independent	9	+4	530	18,48,830	5.05%	+2.44
CPI Communist Party of India	7	+1	13	6,55,237	1.79%	+0.04
WBSP WBSP	4	+4	4	2,46,407	0.67%	—
GNLF GNLF	3	0	5	1,90,057	0.52%	+0.08
BJP Bharatiya Janata Party	0	0	266	19,01,351	5.19%	-1.26
PDS PDS	0	0	98	2,19,082	0.60%	—
NCP Nationalist Congress Party	0	0	50	1,73,912	0.47%	—
JMM Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	0	0	5	1,35,204	0.37%	0.00
BSP Bahujan Samaj Party	0	0	38	75,319	0.21%	+0.02
CPI(ML)(L)CPI(ML)(L)	0	0	25	52,050	0.14%	+0.01
RCPIR RCPIR	0	0	2	48,385	0.13%	-0.15
JD(S)JD(S)	0	0	2	28,541	0.08%	—
MUL Indian Union Muslim League	0	0	7	27,682	0.08%	+0.02
RJD Rashtriya Janata Dal	0	0	2	25,582	0.07%	—
JD(U)JD(U)	0	0	14	22,392	0.06%	—
SP Samajwadi Party	0	0	11	20,679	0.06%	—
AMB AMB	0	0	14	18,894	0.05%	0.00
SAP SAP	0	0	7	15,032	0.04%	+0.03
JKPN JKPN	0	-1	3	7,549	0.02%	-0.37
SJP SJP	0	0	2	5,970	0.02%	—
INL INL	0	0	2	5,459	0.01%	0.00
RPI RPI	0	0	4	5,343	0.01%	—
SWJP SWJP	0	0	3	4,520	0.01%	+0.01
SJPR SJPR	0	0	3	4,296	0.01%	—
LJNSP LJNSP	0	0	4	2,851	0.01%	—
JP JP	0	0	2	2,347	0.01%	—
JKP JKP	0	0	2	2,020	0.01%	0.00
MCPIS MCPIS	0	0	1	2,014	0.01%	—
PBGM PBGM	0	0	1	551	0.00%	—
BMF BMF	0	0	1	310	0.00%	—
ABHM ABHM	0	0	1	188	0.00%	0.00

CPM143 (49%)
AITC60 (20%)
INC26 (9%)
FBL25 (9%)
RSP17 (6%)
IND9 (3%)
Others14 (5%)

CPM143
AITC60
INC26
FBL25
RSP17
IND9
Others14

CPM143
AITC60
INC26
FBL25
RSP17
IND9
CPI7
WBSP4
Others3

Constituency performance

From the 294 results in West Bengal

Closest contest

BARUIPUR

won by 5 (0.00%)

Biggest victory

KESHPUR

won by 1,08,112 (81.27%)

Highest turnout

SABANG

90.49%

Lowest turnout

BARA BAZAR

32.41%

Seat change

Against West Bengal's previous Vidhan Sabha election (1996), matched constituency-for-constituency

Retained187 (64%)
Changed hands107 (36%)

187 constituencies were won by the same party as last time; 107 changed hands.

India’s constituencies have not been redrawn since the 2008 delimitation, so this compares the same seat boundary both times.

Vote share & turnout trend

West Bengal, every Vidhan Sabha election on record

VOTE SHARE

CPM
AITC
INC
FBL

TURNOUT

Assembly seat results

All 294 seats, alphabetical · showing 51–100 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
BOW BAZAR	AITCNAYNA BANDYOPADHYAY	CPMAJIT PANDEY	11,94923.66%	43.3%
BUDGE BUDGE	AITCASHOK KUMAR DEB	CPMKALI BHANDARI	22,77318.43%	74.5%
BURDWAN NORTH	CPMADHIKARY NISITH	INCLAKSHMI NARAYAN NAYEK	50,80333.14%	80.5%
BURDWAN SOUTH	CPMNIRUPAM SEN	AITCPARESH CHANDRA SARKAR	24,32714.05%	80.9%
BURTOLA	AITCSADHAN PANDE	RSPKALYAN MUKHERJEE	25,26036.65%	58.3%
CANNING EAST	CPMABDUR RAZZAK MOLLA	INCMUJIBAR RAHAMAN KAYAL	55,75947.70%	80.1%
CANNING WEST	AITCGOBINDA CHANDRA NASKAR	CPMBIMAL MISTRY	4,9583.68%	72.4%
CHAKDAHA	CPMSATYASADHAN CHAKRABORTY	AITCGOURI SANKAR DUTTA	16,5008.57%	81.5%
CHAMPDANI	INCABDUL MANNAN	CPMKAJI ABDUL HAI	15,14510.48%	64.5%
CHANDERNAGORE	INCKAMAL MUKHERJEE	CPMRATAN LAL DASGUPTA	3,0862.26%	73.3%
CHANDITALA	CPMBHAKTARAM PAN	AITCAMIT MITRA	8360.56%	71.5%
CHANDRAKONA	CPMGURUPADA DUTTA	AITCKUSHARI PRABIR	41,54129.23%	86.1%
CHAPRA	CPMSHAMSUL ISLAM MOLLAH	AITCJULFIKAR KHAN	4,0283.12%	81.0%
CHHATNA	RSPSUBHAS GOSWAMI	AITCSWAPAN MONDAL	15,48516.42%	64.3%
CHINSURAH	FBLNAREN DEY	AITCROBIN MUKHERJEE	1,8451.26%	76.7%
CHOPRA	INDHAMIDUL RAHAMAN	CPMAKBAR ALI	1,1110.96%	82.2%
CHOWRINGHEE	AITCSUBRATA MUKHERJEE	JD(S)ZAHID HOSSAIN	25,36142.50%	42.1%
CONTAI NORTH	AITCJYOTIRMOY KAR	CPMCHAKRADHAR MAIKAP	4810.38%	86.1%
CONTAI SOUTH	AITCADHIKARY SISIR	CPISUKHENDU MAITI	13,55511.36%	79.0%
COOCH BEHAR NORTH	FBLDIPAK CHANDRA SARKER	AITCMIHIR GOSWAMI	18,35715.05%	77.4%
COOCH BEHAR WEST	FBLAKSHOY THAKUR	AITCSOUMENDRA CHANDRA DAS	30,87922.59%	80.7%
COSSIPUR	AITCBANDYOPADHYAY TARAK	CPMBIJOY BHATTACHARJEE	5,7768.76%	62.5%
DANTAN	CPINANDAGOPAL BHATTACHARYA	AITCBIKRAM CHANDRA PRADHAN	31,78225.45%	79.6%
DARJEELING	GNLFD.K. PRADHAN	INDSAWAN RAI	45,26342.99%	60.6%
DASPUR	AITCAJIT BHUNIA	CPMCHITTARANJAN MUKHOPADHYAY	4,3193.75%	79.6%
DEBRA	CPMSK. JAHANGIR KARIM	AITCRADHA KANTA MAITI	8,5206.58%	87.9%
DEGANGA	FBLMD. YAKUB	AITCABDUR ROUF	25,87822.06%	78.8%
DHAKURIA	AITCSOUGATA RAY	RSPKSHITI GOSWAMI	4,6323.65%	67.8%
DHANIAKHALI	FBLKRIPA SINDHU SAHA	AITCASIMA PATRA	26,52420.15%	84.2%
DHUPGURI	CPMLAKSHMI KANTA ROY	AITCASHOKE KUMAR BARMAN	22,84619.71%	80.9%
DIAMOND HARBOUR	CPMRISHI HALDAR	AITCAMJAD ALI SARDAR	2,7422.25%	70.7%
DINHATA	FBLKAMAL GUHA	AITCDIPAK SENGUPTA	19,72014.35%	78.0%
DOMJUR	CPMPADMA NIDHI DHAR	AITCBRAJAMOHAN MAJUMDER	16,2448.93%	70.6%
DOMKAL	CPMANISUR RAHAMAN SARKAR	INCREJAUL KARIM (MANIK)	13,1098.86%	82.1%
DUBRAJPUR	FBLBHAKTI PADA GHOSH	AITCSATTICK ROY	32,94527.65%	76.7%
DUM DUM	AITCARUNAVA GHOSH	CPMAJIT CHOWDHURY	2240.13%	74.4%
DURGAPUR-I	CPMMRINAL BANERJEE	INCCHANDRA SEKHAR BANERJEE	9,9269.52%	63.6%
DURGAPUR-II	AITCAPURBA MUKHERJEE	CPMDEBABRATA BANERJEE	9,4795.00%	70.6%
EGRA	INDSINHA PRABODH CHANDRA	AITCTAPAN KANTI KAR	3,5172.75%	83.9%
ENGLISHBAZAR	CPMSAMAR ROY	INCGOUTAM CHAKRABORTY	11,9509.11%	77.3%
ENTALLY	CPMMD. SALIM	AITCSULTAN AHMED	6,2307.20%	55.9%
FALAKATA	CPMJOGESH CHANDRA BARMAN	AITCANIL ADHIKARY	17,02314.14%	77.8%
FALTA	AITCTAMONASH GHOSH	CPMMALINA MISTRY	2,1382.13%	72.2%
FARAKKA	INCMAINUL HAQUE	CPMMIR TAREKUL ISLAM	11,1879.89%	75.2%
GAIGHATA	AITCJYOTIPRIYA MALLICK	CPMMANMATHA ROY	11,6907.12%	84.9%
GAJOL	CPMSADHU TUDU	AITCNABAKUMAR HEMBROM	19,70817.00%	77.0%
GALSI	FBLMEHBUB MONDAL	INCAJIJUL HAQUE MONDAL	31,99326.48%	79.0%
GANGAJALGHATI	CPMBAURI RAMCHARAN	AITCSWAPAN BOURI	22,11020.68%	69.7%
GANGARAMPUR	CPMNARAYAN BISWAS	AITCBIPLAB MITRA	6,1163.82%	83.2%
GARDEN REACH	CPMAMIN MOHAMMED	AITCFAZLE AZIM MOLLA	31,92424.95%	71.7%

Vote share and swing on this page are the party’s share of valid votes in West Bengal alone — a different number from its national or all-state figures, and never mixed with them.