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 251–294 of 294

Assembly seat	Winner	Runner-up	Margin	Turnout
RANAGHAT WEST	INCSANKAR SINGHA	CPMJYOTIRMOYEE SIKDAR	15,71110.08%	85.0%
RANIBANDH	CPMMAKAR TUDU	JMMGOPINATH SAREN	34,74137.04%	64.9%
RANIGANJ	CPMBANSA GOPAL CHOWDHURY	INCSAMPA SARKAR	62,57654.01%	69.1%
RASHBEHARI AVENUE	AITCSOBHANDEB CHATTOPADHYAY	JD(S)SITARAM BEHANI	27,38842.39%	52.1%
RATUA	CPMSAILEN SARKAR	INCSAMAR MUKHERJEE	8,3857.65%	78.5%
SABANG	CPMTUSHAR KANTI LAYA	INCMANAS RANJAN BHUNIA	6,2575.11%	90.5%
SAGAR	AITCBANKIM CHANDRA HAZRA	CPMPRAVANJAN MONDAL	5740.40%	88.2%
SAGARDIGHI	CPMDAS PARESH NATH	AITCRAJESH KUMAR BHAKAT	2,6302.36%	76.5%
SALBANI	CPMKHAGENDRA NATH MAHATA	AITCDINEN ROY	23,45520.72%	83.2%
SANDESHKHALI	CPMKANTI BISWAS	AITCRANJIT KUMAR DAS	27,10422.66%	79.6%
SANKRAIL	AITCSITAL KUMAR SARDAR	CPMBIKASH MONDAL (VILL RAGHUDEVBATI)	7,6825.60%	69.6%
SANTIPUR	INCAJOY DEY	INDBADAL BASAK	21,57613.42%	83.8%
SATGACHIA	AITCSONALI GUHA	CPMGOKUL BAIRAGI	6,0114.98%	76.1%
SEALDAH	INCSOMENDRA NATH MITRA	CPICHANCHAL GHOSH	15,69136.19%	51.0%
SERAMPORE	AITCRATNA DE (NAG)	INDKESTO MUKHERJEE	5,3585.23%	59.2%
SHIBPUR	AITCJATU LAHIRI	FBLNEPAL KANTI BHATTACHARJEE	13,2186.37%	71.0%
SHYAMPUKUR	FBLSUBRATA BOSE	AITCPULAK CHANDRA DAS	3,3255.42%	66.8%
SHYAMPUR	AITCKALIPADA MANDAL	FBLJALADHAR SAMANTA	7,3675.87%	78.6%
SILIGURI	CPMASOK BHATTACHARYA	AITCPRASANTA NANDY	22,88112.47%	64.5%
SINGUR	AITCRABINDRANATH BHATTACHARYA	CPMBIDYUT KUMAR DAS	4,7703.42%	80.7%
SITAI	FBLNRIPENDRA NATH ROY	INCDR. MD FAZLE HAQUE	6,2804.45%	80.1%
SITALKUCHI	CPMSUDHIR PRAMANIK	INCBIRENDRA NARAYAN BARMA	45,56235.04%	86.5%
SONAMUKHI	CPMKHAN SUKHENDU	AITCDIPALI SAHA	18,95116.07%	80.7%
SONARPUR	AITCNIRMAL CHANDRA MANDAL	CPMABHA MANDAL	8,0643.96%	74.2%
SURI	CPMBRAJA MUKHERJEE	AITCSUNITI CHATTARAJ	1,4521.10%	75.3%
SUTAHATA	CPMNITYANAND BERA	AITCTUSHAR KANTI MONDAL	3,1361.81%	85.6%
SUTI	RSPJANE ALAM MIAN	INDMD. SAHRAB	4,6203.96%	74.8%
SUZAPUR	INCRUBI NOOR	CPMABDUR RAUF	11,58011.20%	76.5%
SWARUPNAGAR	CPMMUSTAFA BIN QUASEM	AITCSWARAJ MISRA	6,5835.14%	80.9%
TALDANGRA	CPMMONORANJAN PATRA	AITCDILIP PANDA	39,73930.94%	80.0%
TALTOLA	CPMDEBESH DAS	AITCDILIP KUMAR DAS	8341.06%	57.1%
TAMLUK	AITCNIRBED ROY	CPISANTOSH RANA	7,4465.32%	86.7%
TAPAN	RSPKHARA SOREN	AITCANTONY URAW	8,8997.46%	82.6%
TARAKESWAR	INDPRATIM CHATTERJEE	INCMOHAN GHOSH	28,91222.80%	83.0%
TITAGARH	CPMPRAVIN KR. SHAW	AITCASHOK SHUKLA	16,24616.83%	77.1%
TOLLYGUNGE	AITCPANKAJ BANERJEE	CPMGOUTAM BANERJEE	5,5315.49%	66.8%
TUFANGANJ	CPMPUSHPA CHANDRA DAS	AITCSACHINDRA CHANDRA DAS	35,68529.45%	82.5%
UDAYNARAYANPUR	CPMCHOWDHURY NONIGOPAL	AITCSUKHENDU SEKHAR ROY	17,89714.81%	78.7%
UKHRA	CPMMADAN BAURI	AITCNIRMAL MAJI	15,63311.14%	56.7%
ULUBERIA NORTH	CPMMOHON MONDAL	AITCRAM JANAM MANJHI	7,2216.12%	67.1%
ULUBERIA SOUTH	FBLRABINDRA GHOSH	AITCBANI KUMAR SINGHA	12,52210.46%	72.0%
UTTARPARA	AITCPROF. SWARAJ MUKHERJEE	CPMJYOTI KRISHNA CHATTOPADHYAY	1,7681.19%	69.9%
VIDYASAGAR	CPMLAKSHMI KANTA DEY	AITCMAHUA MONDAL	3,8915.90%	54.8%
VISHNUPUR	CPMJAYANTA CHOWDHURY	AITCSUBHASISH BATABYAL	26,59422.55%	77.7%

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.