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 201–250 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
MAYURESWAR	CPMBISHNU LET	AITCKESTOPADA BAGDI	27,48626.75%	73.7%
MEKLIGANJ	FBLPARESH CHANDRA ADHIKARY	AITCRAMESH ROY	17,03313.34%	85.5%
MEMARI	CPMCHATTOPADHDYAY TAPAS	AITCSYED MUSTAQUE MURSHED	32,43720.28%	82.6%
MIDNAPORE	CPIPURNENDU SENGUPTA	AITCGOURI GHOSH	7,9555.49%	75.3%
MOYNA	CPMDIPAK BERA	AITCBHUSAN CHANDRA DOLAI	5,4524.03%	85.3%
MUGBERIA	WBSPKIRANMAY NANDA	AITCADHIKARI SUVENDU	4,6913.68%	88.8%
MURARAI	CPMDR. QAMRE ELAHI	AITCDR. MOTAHAR HOSSAIN	1,9811.77%	79.7%
MURSHIDABAD	FBLCHHAYA GHOSH	INDMANNAN HOSSAIN	22,99415.48%	79.6%
NABADWIP	AITCPUNDARIKAKSHYA SAHA	CPMJAMUNA BRAHMACHARI	7,9476.61%	80.1%
NABAGRAM	CPMNRIPEN CHAUDHURI	INCARIT MAJUMDER	7,6525.77%	80.9%
NADANGHAT	CPMRATAN DAS	AITCSWAPAN DEBNATH	2,1981.38%	86.0%
NAGRAKATA	CPMCHAITAN MUNDA	AITCGANESH ORAON	27,10723.72%	70.8%
NAIHATI	CPMRANJIT KUNDU	AITCADHIKARI TARUN	28,65621.14%	82.0%
NAKASHIPARA	AITCKALLOL KHAN	CPMSEKH KHABIR UDDIN AHAMED	3,3532.72%	79.5%
NALHATI	FBLKALIMUDDIN SHAMS	INCSARIF HOSSAIN (DALIM MASTER)	3,1343.03%	74.6%
NANDANPUR	AITCSAUMEN MAHAPATRA	CPMOMAR ALI	1,2851.09%	84.9%
NANDIGRAM	CPIILLIYAS MAHAMMAD SK.	AITCSUNIL BARAN MAITI	8,0046.10%	81.3%
NANUR	CPMANAND GOPAL DAS	AITCKRISHNAGOPAL MAJHI	13,44711.10%	78.5%
NAODA	INDABU TAHER KHAN	RSPJAYANTA KUMAR BISWAS	3,3702.60%	73.9%
NARAYANGARH	CPMSURJYA KANTA MISHRA	AITCSALIL KR. DAS PATTANAYAK	26,91319.29%	84.5%
NARGHAT	WBSPBRAHMAMOY NANDA	AITCAMIYA KANTI BHATTACHARJEE	2,6271.92%	87.5%
NATABARI	CPMTAMSER ALI	AITCRABINDRANATH GHOSH	8,2546.69%	86.3%
NAYAGRAM	CPMBHUTNATH SAREN	JMMMANGAL HANSDA	13,16613.12%	76.8%
NOAPARA	AITCMANJU BASU	CPMMADAN MOHAN NATH	4,4464.44%	78.8%
ONDA	FBLANIL MUKHERJEE	INCSK. SAJAHAN	31,40625.42%	73.7%
PALASHIPARA	CPMKAMALENDU SANYAL	AITCTAPAS KUMAR SAHA	1,5811.19%	80.3%
PANCHLA	FBLSRI SAILEN MONDAL	AITCSK. NAZRUL ISLAM	27,81622.33%	68.7%
PANDUA	CPMALI SK. MAJED	AITCSAILEN CHATTOPADHYAY	17,14711.99%	77.9%
PANIHATI	AITCNIRMAL GHOSH	CPMKAMAL SENGUPTA BASU	13,8889.17%	72.5%
PANSKURA EAST	AITCBIPLAB RAY CHOWDHURY	CPMSISIR SARKAR	2,3061.70%	83.5%
PANSKURA WEST	CPICHITTARANJAN DASTHAKUR	AITCJAKIUR RAHAMAN KHAN	6,3504.92%	82.4%
PARA	CPMBILASIBALA SAHIS	AITCMIRA BAURI	25,99224.50%	66.5%
PATASPUR	CPIKAMAKHYANANDAN DASMAHAPATRA	AITCMRINAL KANTI DAS	9,0586.68%	88.5%
PATHARPRATIMA	CPMJAJNESWAR DAS	AITCSAMIR JANA	8550.71%	81.0%
PHANSIDEWA	CPMPRAKASH MINJ	INCMAMLA KUJUR	28,63717.53%	71.8%
PINGLA	INDRAMAPADA SAMANTA	AITCRAJ KUMAR DAS	47,57041.75%	80.7%
POLBA	CPMSAKTI PADA KHANRA	AITCAZIZUR RAHMAN	7,7646.08%	80.8%
PURBASTHALI	CPMSUBRATA BHOWAL	AITCANSAR MONDAL	14,74511.12%	79.7%
PURSURAH	CPMNIMAI MAL	AITCSK. PARVEZ RAHMAN	51,21738.39%	84.9%
PURULIA	CPMNIKHIL MUKHERJEE	AITCKAMAKSHYA PRASAD SINGH DEO	5,5094.70%	68.0%
RAGHUNATHPUR	CPMUMA RANI BOURI	AITCMAGARAM BOURI	13,22814.90%	65.4%
RAIGANJ	INCCHITTARANJAN ROY	CPMHARINARAYAN ROY	9,6856.75%	78.0%
RAINA	CPMSHYAMA PROSAD PAL	AITCARUP KUMAR DAS	39,54430.87%	80.6%
RAIPUR	CPMUPEN KISKU	INDKSHETRA MOHAN HANSDA	36,75630.94%	74.3%
RAJARHAT	AITCTANMOY MONDAL	CPMRABINDRA NATH MANDAL	1,1480.56%	77.7%
RAJGANJ	CPMJOTINDRA NATH ROY	AITCKHAGESWAR ROY	23,92812.97%	72.9%
RAJNAGAR	FBLBIJOY BAGDI	AITCASHIMA DHIBAR	21,59921.98%	66.7%
RAMNAGAR	AITCAKHIL GIRI	CPMSAMARES DAS	6,5514.68%	82.4%
RAMPURHAT	AITCASISH BANERJEE	FBLMD. HANNAN	10,9579.41%	75.4%
RANAGHAT EAST	CPMASIM BALA	AITCDR. RAMENDRA NATH BISWAS	4,3432.59%	81.4%

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.