West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2001
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The West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2001 was held in Indian state of West Bengal to elect 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.[1]
Results
Left Front led by Communist Party of India (Marxist) won 196 seats, a majority. Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharya was reelected as Chief Minister. Pankaj Kumar Banerjee of All India Trinamool Congress, took charge as Leader of the Opposition.[2]
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Political Party |
No. of candidates |
No. of elected |
Number of Votes |
% of Votes |
Seat change |
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Communist Party of India (Marxist) | 211 | 143 | 13,402,603 | 36.59% | ||
All India Trinamool Congress | 226 | 60 | 11,229,396 | 30.66% | ||
Indian National Congress | 60 | 26 | 2,921,151 | 7.98% | ||
All India Forward Bloc | 34 | 25 | 2,067,944 | 5.65% | ||
Revolutionary Socialist Party | 23 | 17 | 1,256,951 | 3.43% | ||
Communist Party of India | 13 | 7 | 655,237 | 1.79% | ||
West Bengal Socialist Party | 4 | 4 | 246,407 | 0.67% | ||
Gorkha National Liberation Front | 5 | 3 | 190,057 | 0.52% | ||
Independents | 530 | 9 | 1,848,830 | 5.05% | ||
Total | 1676 | 294 | 36,626,099 |
Hashim Abdul Halim was nominated as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly,[3] while Anil Kumar Mukherjee was nominated as Deputy Speaker.[4]
Alliance wise result
LF+ | SEATS | UPA+ | SEATS | NDA+ | SEATS | OTHERS | SEATS | |
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CPIM | 143 | AITC | 60 | BJP | 0 | SUCI(C) | 2 | |
AIFB | 25 | INC | 26 | GJM | 0 | IND | 0 | |
RSP | 17 | GNLF | 3 | |||||
CPI | 7 | NCP | 0 | |||||
WBSP | 4 | PDS | 0 | |||||
DSP(PC) | 1 | |||||||
MFB | 0 | |||||||
RCPI | 0 | |||||||
JD(S) | 0 | |||||||
TOTAL (2001) | 196 | TOTAL (2001) | 89 | TOTAL (2001) | 0 | TOTAL (2001) | 2 | |
TOTAL (1996) | N/A | TOTAL (1996) | N/A | TOTAL (1996) | N/A | TOTAL (1996) | N/A |
Reference
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 [1] PDF (Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal, Election Commission of India)
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