2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

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2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
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  1996 10 May 2001 2006  

All 294 seats in the West Bengal Legislative Assembly
148 seats needed for a majority
Turnout75.29% (Decrease2.svg 6.68 pp)
 First partySecond partyThird party
 
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Leader Buddhadeb Bhattacharya Mamata Banerjee Pranab Mukherjee
Party CPI(M) AITC INC
Alliance LF INC+TMC INC+TMC
Leader's seat Jadavpur Did not contest [lower-alpha 1] Did not contest
Last election37.16%, 153 seatsParty split after last election39.48%, 82 seats
Seats won1436026
Seat changeDecrease2.svg 10Increase2.svg 60Decrease2.svg 56
Popular vote13,402,60311,229,3962,921,151
Percentage36.59%30.66%7.98%
SwingDecrease2.svg 1.33 pp Increase2.svg 30.66 pp Decrease2.svg 31.50 pp

Chief Minister before election

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
CPI(M)

Chief Minister after election

Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee
CPI(M)

Legislative Assembly elections were held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2001 to elect 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly. [1]

Contents

Results

Left Front led by Communist Party of India (Marxist) won 196 seats, a majority. Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was reelected as Chief Minister. Pankaj Kumar Banerjee of All India Trinamool Congress, took charge as Leader of the Opposition. [2]

For the first time since 1971, no single party won a majority. This was also the first time since its landslide victory in 1977, that the ruling CPI(M) failed to win a majority on its own. As of 2022, this was also the last time that no single party won an outright majority.

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) 21114313,402,60336.59%
All India Trinamool Congress 2266011,229,39630.66%
Indian National Congress 60262,921,1517.98%
All India Forward Bloc 34252,067,9445.65%
Revolutionary Socialist Party 23171,256,9513.43%
Communist Party of India 137655,2371.79%
West Bengal Socialist Party 44246,4070.67%
Gorkha National Liberation Front 53190,0570.52%
Biplobi Bangla Congress 1162,6110.09%
Independents 53091,848,8305.05%
Total167629436,626,099

Hashim Abdul Halim was nominated as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, [3] while Anil Kumar Mukherjee was nominated as Deputy Speaker. [4]

Elected members

ConstituencyReserved for
(SC/ST/None)
MemberParty
MekliganjSCParesh Chandra Adhikary All India Forward Bloc
SitalkuchiSCSudhir Pramanik Communist Party of India
MathabhangaSCDinesh Chandra Dakua Communist Party of India
Cooch Behar NorthNoneDipak Chandra Sarker All India Forward Bloc
Cooch Behar WestNoneAkshoy Thakur All India Forward Bloc
SitaiNoneNripendra Nath Roy All India Forward Bloc
DinhataNoneKamal Guha All India Forward Bloc
NatabariNoneTamser Ali Communist Party of India
TufanganjSCPushpa Chandra Das Communist Party of India
KumargramSTDasrath Tirkey Revolutionary Socialist Party
KalchiniSTPaban Kumar Lakra Indian National Congress
AlipurduarsNoneNirmal Das Revolutionary Socialist Party
FalakataSCJogesh Chandra Barman Communist Party of India
MadarihatSTKumari Kujur Revolutionary Socialist Party
DhupguriSCLakshmi Kanta Roy Communist Party of India
NagrakataSTChaitan Munda Communist Party of India
MainaguriSCBachchamohan Roy Revolutionary Socialist Party
MalSTSomra Lakra Communist Party of India
KrantiNoneSudhan Raha Communist Party of India
JalpaiguriNoneGobinda Roy All India Forward Bloc
RajganjSCJotindra Nath Roy Communist Party of India
KalimpongNoneGoulan Lepcha Gorkha National Liberation Front
DarjeelingNoneD.k. Pradhan Gorkha National Liberation Front
KurseongNoneShanta Chettri Gorkha National Liberation Front
SiliguriNoneAsok Bhattacharya Communist Party of India
PhansidewaSTPrakash Minj Communist Party of India
ChopraNoneHamidul Rahaman Independent
IslampurNoneAbdul Karim Chowdhary All India Trinamool Congress
GoalpokharNoneHafiz Alam Sairani All India Forward Bloc
KarandighiNoneGokul Roy All India Forward Bloc
RaiganjSCChittaranjan Roy Indian National Congress
KaliaganjSCPramathanath Roy Indian National Congress
KushmandiSCNarmada Chandra Roy Revolutionary Socialist Party
ItaharNoneSrikumar Mukherjee Communist Party of India
GangarampurNoneNarayan Biswas Communist Party of India
TapanSTKhara Soren Revolutionary Socialist Party
KumarganjNoneKhatun Mafuja Communist Party of India
BalurghatNoneChoudhury Biswanath Revolutionary Socialist Party
HabibpurSTJadu Hemrom Communist Party of India
GajolSTSadhu Tudu Communist Party of India
KharbaNoneMahabubul Haque (badal) Indian National Congress
HarishchandrapurNoneAlam Mostaque Indian National Congress
RatuaNoneSailen Sarkar Communist Party of India
AraidangaNoneSabitri Mitra Indian National Congress
MaldaSCSubhendu Chowdhury Communist Party of India
EnglishbazarNoneSamar Roy Communist Party of India
ManikchakNoneAsima Chowdhuri Communist Party of India
SuzapurNoneRubi Noor Indian National Congress
KaliachakNoneAbu Hasem Khan Chowdhury Indian National Congress
FarakkaNoneMainul Haque Indian National Congress
AurangabadNoneHumayun Reza Indian National Congress
SutiNoneJane Alam Mian Revolutionary Socialist Party
SagardighiSCDas Paresh Nath Communist Party of India
JangipurNoneAbul Hasnat Revolutionary Socialist Party
LalgolaNoneAbu Hena Indian National Congress
BhagabangolaNoneMojibor Rahaman West Bengal Socialist Party
NabagramNoneNripen Chaudhuri Communist Party of India
MurshidabadNoneChhaya Ghosh All India Forward Bloc
JalangiNoneUnus Ali Sarkar Communist Party of India
DomkalNoneAnisur Rahaman Sarkar Communist Party of India
NaodaNoneAbu Taher Khan Independent
HariharparaNoneNiamot Sk. Independent
BerhamporeNoneMaya Rani Paul Indian National Congress
BeldangaNoneGolam Kibria Mia Indian National Congress
KandiNoneAtish Chandra Sinha Indian National Congress
KhargramSCBiswanath Mondal Communist Party of India
BarwanNoneAmalendralal Roy Revolutionary Socialist Party
BharatpurNoneId. Mohammad Revolutionary Socialist Party
KarimpurNonePrafulla Kumar Bhowmick Communist Party of India
PalashiparaNoneKamalendu Sanyal Communist Party of India
NakashiparaNoneKallol Khan All India Trinamool Congress
KaliganjNoneDhananjoy Modak Revolutionary Socialist Party
ChapraNoneShamsul Islam Mollah Communist Party of India
KrishnaganjSCSushil Biswas Communist Party of India
Krishnagar EastNoneMukherjee Shibdas All India Trinamool Congress
Krishnagar WestNoneSunil Kumar Ghosh Communist Party of India
NabadwipNonePundarikakshya Saha All India Trinamool Congress
SantipurNoneAjoy Dey Indian National Congress
HanskhaliSCNayan Sarkar Communist Party of India
Ranaghat EastSCAsim Bala Communist Party of India
Ranaghat WestNoneSankar Singha Indian National Congress
ChakdahaNoneSatyasadhan Chakraborty Communist Party of India
HaringhataNoneBankim Ghosh Communist Party of India
BagdahaSCKamalakshmi Biswas All India Forward Bloc
BongaonNonePankaj Ghosh Communist Party of India
GaighataNoneJyotipriya Mallick All India Trinamool Congress
HabraNoneTapati Dutta All India Trinamool Congress
AshokenagarNoneSarmista Dutta Communist Party of India
AmdangaNoneHashim Abdul Halim Communist Party of India
BarasatNoneAshoke (gopal) Mukherjee All India Trinamool Congress
RajarhatSCTanmoy Mondal All India Trinamool Congress
DegangaNoneMd. Yakub All India Forward Bloc
SwarupnagarNoneMustafa Bin Quasem Communist Party of India
BaduriaNoneQazi Abdul Gaffar Indian National Congress
BasirhatNoneNarayan Mukherjee Communist Party of India
HasnabadNoneGautam Deb Communist Party of India
HaroaSCKshiti Ranjan Mondal Communist Party of India
SandeshkhaliSCKanti Biswas Communist Party of India
HingalganjSCGayen Nripen Communist Party of India
GosabaSCGanesh Mondal Revolutionary Socialist Party
BasantiSCSubhas Naskar Revolutionary Socialist Party
KultaliSCPrabodh Purkait Independent
JoynagarNoneDebaprasad Sarkar Independent
BaruipurNoneArup Bhadra All India Trinamool Congress
Canning WestSCGobinda Chandra Naskar All India Trinamool Congress
Canning EastNoneAbdur Razzak Molla Communist Party of India
BhangarNoneBadal Zamadar Communist Party of India
JadavpurNoneBuddhadev Bhattacharjee Communist Party of India
SonarpurSCNirmal Chandra Mandal All India Trinamool Congress
Bishnupur EastSCDilip Mondal All India Trinamool Congress
Bishnupur WestNoneSubrata Bakshi All India Trinamool Congress
Behala EastNoneParash Dutta All India Trinamool Congress
Behala WestNonePartha Chatterjee All India Trinamool Congress
Garden ReachNoneAmin Mohammed Communist Party of India
MaheshtalaNoneMursalin Molla Communist Party of India
Budge BudgeNoneAshok Kumar Deb All India Trinamool Congress
SatgachiaNoneSonali Guha All India Trinamool Congress
FaltaNoneTamonash Ghosh All India Trinamool Congress
Diamond HarbourNoneRishi Haldar Communist Party of India
Magrahat WestNoneNoorar Rahaman Communist Party of India
Magrahat EastSCBansari Mohan Kanji Communist Party of India
MandirbazarSCChoudhury Mohan Jatua All India Trinamool Congress
MathurapurNoneKanti Ganguly Communist Party of India
KulpiSCJagaranjan Haldar All India Trinamool Congress
PatharpratimaNoneJajneswar Das Communist Party of India
KakdwipNoneManturam Pakhira All India Trinamool Congress
SagarNoneBankim Chandra Hazra All India Trinamool Congress
BijpurNoneJagadish Chandra Das Communist Party of India
NaihatiNoneRanjit Kundu Communist Party of India
BhatparaNoneArjun Singh All India Trinamool Congress
JagatdalNoneHaripada Biswas All India Forward Bloc
NoaparaNoneManju Basu All India Trinamool Congress
TitagarhNonePravin Kr. Shaw Communist Party of India
KhardahNoneAsim Kumar Dasgupta Communist Party of India
PanihatiNoneNirmal Ghosh All India Trinamool Congress
KamarhatiNoneManas Mukherjee Communist Party of India
BaranagarNoneAmar Chaudhuri Revolutionary Socialist Party
Dum DumNoneArunava Ghosh All India Trinamool Congress
Belgachia EastNoneChakraborti Subhas Communist Party of India
CossipurNoneBandyopadhyay Tarak All India Trinamool Congress
ShyampukurNoneSubrata Bose All India Forward Bloc
JorabaganNoneSudhangshu Seal Communist Party of India
JorasankoNoneSatya Narayan Bajaj All India Trinamool Congress
Bara BazarNoneTapas Roy All India Trinamool Congress
Bow BazarNoneNayna Bandyopadhyay All India Trinamool Congress
ChowringheeNoneSubrata Mukherjee All India Trinamool Congress
KabitirthaNoneRam Pyare Ram Indian National Congress
AliporeNoneTapas Paul All India Trinamool Congress
Rashbehari AvenueNoneSobhandeb Chattopadhyay All India Trinamool Congress
TollygungeNonePankaj Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress
DhakuriaNoneSougata Ray All India Trinamool Congress
BallygungeNoneRabin Deb Communist Party of India
EntallyNoneMd. Salim Communist Party of India
TaltolaSCDebesh Das Communist Party of India
BeliaghataNoneManabendra Mukherjee Communist Party of India
SealdahNoneSomendra Nath Mitra Indian National Congress
VidyasagarNoneLakshmi Kanta Dey Communist Party of India
BurtolaNoneSadhan Pande All India Trinamool Congress
ManicktolaNoneParesh Paul All India Trinamool Congress
Belgachia WestNoneRajdeo Goala Communist Party of India
BallyNoneKanika Ganguly Communist Party of India
Howrah NorthNoneLagan Deo Singh Communist Party of India
Howrah CentralNoneAmbica Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress
Howrah SouthNoneBadal Basu Communist Party of India
ShibpurNoneJatu Lahiri All India Trinamool Congress
DomjurNonePadma Nidhi Dhar Communist Party of India
JagatballavpurNoneBiman Chakrabarty All India Trinamool Congress
PanchlaNoneSri Sailen Mondal All India Forward Bloc
SankrailSCSital Kumar Sardar All India Trinamool Congress
Uluberia NorthSCMohon Mondal Communist Party of India
Uluberia SouthNoneRabindra Ghosh All India Forward Bloc
ShyampurNoneKalipada Mandal All India Trinamool Congress
BagnanNoneNirupama Chatterjee Communist Party of India
KalyanpurNoneAsit Mitra Indian National Congress
AmtaNonePratyush Mukherjee Communist Party of India
UdaynarayanpurNoneChowdhury Nonigopal Communist Party of India
JangiparaNoneIbha Dey Communist Party of India
ChanditalaNoneBhaktaram Pan Communist Party of India
UttarparaNoneProf. Swaraj Mukherjee All India Trinamool Congress
SeramporeNoneRatna De (nag) All India Trinamool Congress
ChampdaniNoneAbdul Mannan Indian National Congress
ChandernagoreNoneKamal Mukherjee Indian National Congress
SingurNoneRabindranath Bhattacharya All India Trinamool Congress
HaripalNoneKaliprasad Biswas Communist Party of India
TarakeswarNonePratim Chatterjee Independent
ChinsurahNoneNaren Dey All India Forward Bloc
BansberiaNoneAshutosh Mukhopadhyay Communist Party of India
BalagarhSCDibakanta Routh Communist Party of India
PanduaNoneAli Sk. Majed Communist Party of India
PolbaNoneSakti Pada Khanra Communist Party of India
DhaniakhaliSCKripa Sindhu Saha All India Forward Bloc
PursurahNoneNimai Mal Communist Party of India
KhanakulSCBanshi Badan Maitra Communist Party of India
ArambaghNoneBinoy Datta Communist Party of India
GoghatSCShiba Prasad Malick All India Forward Bloc
ChandrakonaNoneGurupada Dutta Communist Party of India
GhatalSCRatan Pakhira Communist Party of India
DaspurNoneAjit Bhunia All India Trinamool Congress
NandanpurNoneSaumen Mahapatra All India Trinamool Congress
Panskura WestNoneChittaranjan Dasthakur Communist Party of India
Panskura EastNoneBiplab Ray Chowdhury All India Trinamool Congress
TamlukNoneNirbed Roy All India Trinamool Congress
MoynaNoneDipak Bera Communist Party of India
MahishadalNoneDipak Kumar Ghosh All India Trinamool Congress
SutahataSCNityanand Bera Communist Party of India
NandigramNoneIlliyas Mahammad Sk. Communist Party of India
NarghatNoneBrahmamoy Nanda West Bengal Socialist Party
BhagabanpurNoneArdhendu Maity All India Trinamool Congress
KhajuriSCSunirmal Paik West Bengal Socialist Party
Contai NorthNoneJyotirmoy Kar All India Trinamool Congress
Contai SouthNoneAdhikary Sisir All India Trinamool Congress
RamnagarNoneAkhil Giri All India Trinamool Congress
EgraNoneSinha Prabodh Chandra Independent
MugberiaNoneKiranmay Nanda West Bengal Socialist Party
PataspurNoneKamakhyanandan Dasmahapatra Communist Party of India
SabangNoneTushar Kanti Laya Communist Party of India
PinglaNoneRamapada Samanta Independent
DebraNoneSk. Jahangir Karim Communist Party of India
KeshpurSCNanda Rani Dal Communist Party of India
Garhbeta EastNoneSusanta Ghosh Communist Party of India
Garhbeta WestSCKrishna Prasad Duley Communist Party of India
SalbaniNoneKhagendra Nath Mahata Communist Party of India
MidnaporeNonePurnendu Sengupta Communist Party of India
Kharagpur TownNoneGyan Singh Sohanpal Indian National Congress
Kharagpur RuralNoneNazmul Haque Communist Party of India
KeshiariSTMaheswar Murmu Communist Party of India
NarayangarhNoneSurjya Kanta Mishra Communist Party of India
DantanNoneNandagopal Bhattacharya Communist Party of India
NayagramSTBhutnath Saren Communist Party of India
GopiballavpurNoneBhabani Sankar Hatial Communist Party of India
JhargramNoneMina Sanatani Communist Party of India
BinpurSTSambhu Nath Mandi Communist Party of India
BanduanSTUpendranath Hansda Communist Party of India
ManbazarNoneMahata Shamyapyari Communist Party of India
BalrampurSTBhandu Majhi Communist Party of India
ArsaNoneNishikanta Mehta All India Forward Bloc
JhaldaNoneNepal Mahato Independent
JaipurNoneShanti Ram Mahato Indian National Congress
PuruliaNoneNikhil Mukherjee Communist Party of India
ParaSCBilasibala Sahis Communist Party of India
RaghunathpurSCUma Rani Bouri Communist Party of India
KashipurSTRabindranath Hembram Communist Party of India
HuraNoneAbinas Mahata Communist Party of India
TaldangraNoneMonoranjan Patra Communist Party of India
RaipurSTUpen Kisku Communist Party of India
RanibandhSTMakar Tudu Communist Party of India
IndpurSCKiriti Bagdi Communist Party of India
ChhatnaNoneSubhas Goswami Revolutionary Socialist Party
GangajalghatiSCBauri Ramcharan Communist Party of India
BarjoraNoneSusmita Biswas Communist Party of India
BankuraNoneKashinath Misra All India Trinamool Congress
OndaNoneAnil Mukherjee All India Forward Bloc
VishnupurNoneJayanta Chowdhury Communist Party of India
KotulpurNoneGhose Manasi Communist Party of India
IndasSCNanda Dulal Majhi Communist Party of India
SonamukhiSCKhan Sukhendu Communist Party of India
KultiNoneAcharya Maniklal All India Forward Bloc
BarabaniNoneManik Upadhyay All India Trinamool Congress
HirapurNoneMalay Ghatak All India Trinamool Congress
AsansolNoneKalyan Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress
RaniganjNoneBansa Gopal Chowdhury Communist Party of India
JamuriaNonePelab Kabi Communist Party of India
UkhraSCMadan Bauri Communist Party of India
Durgapur-iNoneMrinal Banerjee Communist Party of India
Durgapur-iiNoneApurba Mukherjee All India Trinamool Congress
KanksaSCAnkure Saresh Communist Party of India
AusgramSCKartick Chandra Bag Communist Party of India
BhatarNoneSubhas Mandal Communist Party of India
GalsiNoneMehbub Mondal All India Forward Bloc
Burdwan NorthNoneAdhikary Nisith Communist Party of India
Burdwan SouthNoneNirupam Sen Communist Party of India
KhandaghoshSCJyotsna Singh Communist Party of India
RainaNoneShyama Prosad Pal Communist Party of India
JamalpurSCSamar Hazra Communist Party of India
MemariNoneChattopadhdyay Tapas Communist Party of India
KalnaNoneAnju Kar Communist Party of India
NadanghatNoneRatan Das Communist Party of India
ManteswarNoneAbu Ayes Mondal Communist Party of India
PurbasthaliNoneSubrata Bhowal Communist Party of India
KatwaNoneRabindranath Chatterjee Indian National Congress
MangalkotNoneSadhana Mallik Communist Party of India
KetugramSCTamal Chandra Majhi Communist Party of India
NanurSCAnand Gopal Das Communist Party of India
BolpurNoneTapan Hore Revolutionary Socialist Party
LabhpurNoneNabanita Mukherjee Communist Party of India
DubrajpurNoneBhakti Pada Ghosh All India Forward Bloc
RajnagarSCBijoy Bagdi All India Forward Bloc
SuriNoneBraja Mukherjee Communist Party of India
Mahammad BazarNoneDhiren Sen Communist Party of India
MayureswarSCBishnu Let Communist Party of India
RampurhatNoneAsish Banerjee All India Trinamool Congress
HansanSCAsit Kumar Mal Indian National Congress
NalhatiNoneKalimuddin Shams All India Forward Bloc
MuraraiNoneDr. Qamre Elahi Communist Party of India

Notes

  1. Banerjee was the sitting MP for South Kolkata

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