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 101–150 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
GARHBETA EAST	CPMSUSANTA GHOSH	AITCMD. RAFIQUE	75,41161.00%	86.0%
GARHBETA WEST	CPMKRISHNA PRASAD DULEY	BJPKALIPADA DULEY	75,13959.45%	86.3%
GHATAL	CPMRATAN PAKHIRA	AITCGOPAL KARAK	19,33515.58%	78.9%
GOALPOKHAR	FBLHAFIZ ALAM SAIRANI	INCDEEPA DASMUNSHI	1,7041.57%	62.6%
GOGHAT	FBLSHIBA PRASAD MALICK	INCHARADHAN SANTRA	96,80964.28%	84.9%
GOPIBALLAVPUR	CPMBHABANI SANKAR HATIAL	AITCSAMAY MANDI	39,12034.78%	78.7%
GOSABA	RSPGANESH MONDAL	AITCSUJIT PRAMANIK	15,17214.24%	74.5%
HABIBPUR	CPMJADU HEMROM	BJPRAMLAL HANSDA	18,19419.20%	67.2%
HABRA	AITCTAPATI DUTTA	CPMAMITAVA NANDI	3,7352.49%	80.3%
HANSAN	INCASIT KUMAR MAL	RCPIRMIHIR BAIN	13,76313.00%	78.9%
HANSKHALI	CPMNAYAN SARKAR	AITCABIR RANJAN BISWAS	2,5211.60%	84.1%
HARIHARPARA	INDNIAMOT SK.	CPMNIZAMUDDIN	12,4809.05%	81.2%
HARINGHATA	CPMBANKIM GHOSH	AITCSARADINDU BISWAS	6,3723.88%	80.4%
HARIPAL	CPMKALIPRASAD BISWAS	AITCSAMIRAN MITRA	21,01616.27%	81.4%
HARISHCHANDRAPUR	INCALAM MOSTAQUE	FBLBIRENDRA KUMAR MAITRA (BISHUBABU)	2,3021.85%	82.0%
HAROA	CPMKSHITI RANJAN MONDAL	INCLAKSHMIKANTA MANDAL	35,26026.15%	81.3%
HASNABAD	CPMGAUTAM DEB	AITCRAFIQUL ISLAM MONDAL	3,9813.50%	82.5%
HINGALGANJ	CPMGAYEN NRIPEN	AITCSOURENDRA MONDAL	18,25515.81%	79.4%
HIRAPUR	AITCMALAY GHATAK	INDDILIP GHOSH (KHAYRUDDIN BLOCK)	22,53424.26%	58.1%
HOWRAH CENTRAL	AITCAMBICA BANERJEE	CPMSUBIR RANJAN DAS	19,38822.95%	59.3%
HOWRAH NORTH	CPMLAGAN DEO SINGH	INCASOK GHOSH	71,61549.19%	75.6%
HOWRAH SOUTH	CPMBADAL BASU	AITCARUP ROY	8,4518.04%	64.8%
HURA	CPMABINAS MAHATA	AITCBIKASH CHANDRA MAHATO	16,38916.35%	69.8%
INDAS	CPMNANDA DULAL MAJHI	AITCPURNIMA LOHAR	40,98732.65%	82.6%
INDPUR	CPIKIRITI BAGDI	AITCMADAN BOURI	33,30233.21%	68.0%
ISLAMPUR	AITCABDUL KARIM CHOWDHARY	CPMMD. FARUQUE AZAM	2,0581.86%	68.3%
ITAHAR	CPISRIKUMAR MUKHERJEE	NCPABEDIN DR. ZAINAL	19,76615.30%	82.9%
JADAVPUR	CPMBUDDHADEV BHATTACHARJEE	AITCMADHABI MUKHERJEE	29,28114.53%	75.6%
JAGATBALLAVPUR	AITCBIMAN CHAKRABARTY	CPMM. ANSARUDDIN	6070.44%	73.4%
JAGATDAL	FBLHARIPADA BISWAS	AITCMUKUL ROY	13,4029.94%	80.6%
JAIPUR	INCSHANTI RAM MAHATO	FBLBINDESWAR MAHATO	8570.84%	67.4%
JALANGI	CPMUNUS ALI SARKAR	INCSUBRATA SAHA	6,8254.71%	81.0%
JALPAIGURI	FBLGOBINDA ROY	AITCANUPAM SEN	2,5822.38%	77.2%
JAMALPUR	CPMSAMAR HAZRA	AITCAJAY PRAMANICK	28,37619.81%	82.8%
JAMURIA	CPMPELAB KABI	AITCSHIUDASHAN NAYAR	55,37249.32%	65.7%
JANGIPARA	CPMIBHA DEY	AITCSHAHZABIN KHAN MUNSHI	6,2974.76%	77.8%
JANGIPUR	RSPABUL HASNAT	INDHABIBUR RAHAMAN	19,06416.60%	69.7%
JHALDA	INDNEPAL MAHATO	FBLSATYA RANJAN MAHATO	13,47713.65%	66.6%
JHARGRAM	CPMMINA SANATANI	AITCBANGAL MAKHAN LAL	27,71822.00%	73.4%
JORABAGAN	CPMSUDHANGSHU SEAL	AITCSANJOY BAKSHI	2,4025.32%	44.8%
JORASANKO	AITCSATYA NARAYAN BAJAJ	FBLSHYAM SUNDAR GUPTA	7782.04%	46.6%
JOYNAGAR	INDDEBAPRASAD SARKAR	CPMABUL HOSSAIN LASKAR	15,68112.71%	74.2%
KABITIRTHA	INCRAM PYARE RAM	FBLMOINUDDIN SHAMS	12,83014.93%	47.7%
KAKDWIP	AITCMANTURAM PAKHIRA	CPMASHOK GIRI	5050.41%	82.2%
KALCHINI	INCPABAN KUMAR LAKRA	RSPMAHONAR TIRKEY	4,9344.97%	68.8%
KALIACHAK	INCABU HASEM KHAN CHOWDHURY	CPMBISWANATH GHOSH	7,3645.46%	80.2%
KALIAGANJ	INCPRAMATHANATH ROY	CPMRAMANI KANTA DEB SARMA	3,1252.39%	81.8%
KALIGANJ	RSPDHANANJOY MODAK	AITCABDUS SALAM MUNSHI	12,52210.36%	74.9%
KALIMPONG	GNLFGOULAN LEPCHA	INDNORDEN LAMA	25,00427.74%	59.5%
KALNA	CPMANJU KAR	AITCBANERJEE SRIDHAR	24,95317.06%	87.4%

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.