West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2001

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West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2001
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All 294 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
  First party Second party Third party
  100px Mamata banerjee.jpg BJP election symbol.svg
Leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Mamata Banerjee Rahul Sinha
Party CPI(M) Trinamool Congress BJP
Alliance LF UPA NDA
Leader's seat Jadavpur None none
Last election 0
Seats before 0
Seats won 196 60 0
Seat change n/a
Popular vote 17,629,142 11,229,396
Chief Minister before election

Buddhadev Bhattacharya
LF

 Chief Minister

Buddhadev Bhattacharya
LF

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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e • d Summary of results of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2001[1]
Political Party
 No. of candidates
 No. of elected
 Number of Votes
 % of Votes
 Seat change
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
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. ↑ 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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