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 151–200 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
KALYANPUR	INCASIT MITRA	CPMRABINDRANATH MITRA	7730.69%	74.7%
KAMARHATI	CPMMANAS MUKHERJEE	AITCCHITTA RANJAN BAG	15,51211.39%	75.0%
KANDI	INCATISH CHANDRA SINHA	CPICHANDAN SEN	26,96021.58%	68.9%
KANKSA	CPMANKURE SARESH	INCHIMANGSHU KUMAR MONDAL	38,40230.75%	75.5%
KARANDIGHI	FBLGOKUL ROY	INCHAJI SAJJAD HUSSAIN	10,8397.82%	69.6%
KARIMPUR	CPMPRAFULLA KUMAR BHOWMICK	AITCCHIRA RANJAN MONDAL	6,8185.12%	80.5%
KASHIPUR	CPMRABINDRANATH HEMBRAM	AITCBUDDHESWAR SAREN	16,47218.07%	68.0%
KATWA	INCRABINDRANATH CHATTERJEE	CPMKANAK KANTI GOSWAMI	16,81911.54%	80.3%
KESHIARI	CPMMAHESWAR MURMU	AITCSHYAM MANDI	41,04732.75%	82.4%
KESHPUR	CPMNANDA RANI DAL	AITCRAJANI KANTA DOLOI	1,08,11281.27%	85.5%
KETUGRAM	CPMTAMAL CHANDRA MAJHI	INCAMAR RAM	13,64911.00%	78.8%
KHAJURI	WBSPSUNIRMAL PAIK	AITCRAMCHANDRA MANDAL	16,81414.52%	86.0%
KHANAKUL	CPMBANSHI BADAN MAITRA	AITCTARAPADA DOLUI	62,37444.92%	79.1%
KHANDAGHOSH	CPMJYOTSNA SINGH	AITCBANSHI BADAN ROY	45,65336.79%	82.4%
KHARAGPUR RURAL	CPMNAZMUL HAQUE	AITCAJIT KR. MAITY (S/O PURNA CHANDRA)	22,02417.29%	74.6%
KHARAGPUR TOWN	INCGYAN SINGH SOHANPAL	CPMLALJI PANDEY	12,06415.28%	53.5%
KHARBA	INCMAHABUBUL HAQUE (BADAL)	CPMNAZMUL HOQUE	8,4247.32%	75.6%
KHARDAH	CPMASIM KUMAR DASGUPTA	AITCRANJIT KUMAR MUKHERJEE	23,74413.93%	80.6%
KHARGRAM	CPMBISWANATH MONDAL	INCMADHAB CHANDRA MARJIT	5,6714.72%	71.7%
KOTULPUR	CPMGHOSE MANASI	AITCDAS SUNIL	59,83043.51%	84.6%
KRANTI	CPMSUDHAN RAHA	AITCABURABBANI AHMED (BADSHA)	20,27118.65%	79.4%
KRISHNAGANJ	CPMSUSHIL BISWAS	AITCBIDHAN CHANDRA PODDAR	5410.45%	80.4%
KRISHNAGAR EAST	AITCMUKHERJEE SHIBDAS	CPMRADHANATH BISWAS	16,34111.97%	77.2%
KRISHNAGAR WEST	CPMSUNIL KUMAR GHOSH	AITCUJJAL BISWAS	7,2486.32%	81.3%
KULPI	AITCJAGARANJAN HALDAR	CPMSAKUNTALA PAIK	4,0793.92%	73.0%
KULTALI	INDPRABODH PURKAIT	CPMRAM SANKAR HALDER	4,2683.33%	76.9%
KULTI	FBLACHARYA MANIKLAL	AITCSUHRID BASUMALLICK	2,4702.60%	51.7%
KUMARGANJ	CPMKHATUN MAFUJA	AITCNANI GOPAL ROY	13,2909.35%	82.1%
KUMARGRAM	RSPDASRATH TIRKEY	AITCPARESH CHANDRA DAS	33,18429.92%	75.9%
KURSEONG	GNLFSHANTA CHETTRI	CPMTULSI BHATTRAI	30,90129.60%	60.8%
KUSHMANDI	RSPNARMADA CHANDRA ROY	AITCJITENDRA NATH SARKAR	8,8956.99%	80.9%
LABHPUR	CPMNABANITA MUKHERJEE	AITCARUP KUMAR MISRA	18,70517.28%	77.0%
LALGOLA	INCABU HENA	CPMMD. JOHAQUE ALI	9,1347.65%	76.6%
MADARIHAT	RSPKUMARI KUJUR	AITCNARENDRA NATH KARJEE	41,50741.40%	71.1%
MAGRAHAT EAST	CPMBANSARI MOHAN KANJI	AITCNAMITA SAHA	1,2801.06%	73.7%
MAGRAHAT WEST	CPMNOORAR RAHAMAN	AITCGIASUDDIN MOLLA	11,57810.73%	68.2%
MAHAMMAD BAZAR	CPMDHIREN SEN	AITCSAILEN MAHATA	16,81315.04%	70.8%
MAHESHTALA	CPMMURSALIN MOLLA	AITCBIMAN BANERJEE	12,2168.86%	75.2%
MAHISHADAL	AITCDIPAK KUMAR GHOSH	CPMDR. SUBRATA MAITI	7,8986.64%	84.8%
MAINAGURI	RSPBACHCHAMOHAN ROY	AITCPURNAPRABHA BARMAN	17,53914.57%	78.9%
MAL	CPMSOMRA LAKRA	INCSHYAM BHAGAT	12,87212.35%	73.0%
MALDA	CPMSUBHENDU CHOWDHURY	AITCPHANIBHUSAN ROY	10,4687.79%	77.6%
MANBAZAR	CPMMAHATA SHAMYAPYARI	AITCSITARAM MAHATO	6,4846.04%	72.5%
MANDIRBAZAR	AITCCHOUDHURY MOHAN JATUA	CPMNIKUNJA PAIK	6,8745.67%	74.2%
MANGALKOT	CPMSADHANA MALLIK	AITCCHANDRANATH MUKHERJEE	14,21312.15%	76.0%
MANICKTOLA	AITCPARESH PAUL	CPMSHYAMAL CHAKRABORTY	5,5094.58%	67.8%
MANIKCHAK	CPMASIMA CHOWDHURI	INCRAM PROBESH MANDAL	8,3848.50%	72.0%
MANTESWAR	CPMABU AYES MONDAL	AITCNARAYAN HAZRA CHOUDHURY	16,89813.67%	78.2%
MATHABHANGA	CPMDINESH CHANDRA DAKUA	AITCBINOY KRISHNA BARMAN	26,96521.25%	83.3%
MATHURAPUR	CPMKANTI GANGULY	AITCSATYA RANJAN BAPULI	2,3811.71%	80.8%

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.