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Legislative Assembly elections were held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2001 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 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.
| 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% | ||
| Biplobi Bangla Congress | 1 | 1 | 62,611 | 0.09% | ||
| 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]
Elected members
| Constituency | Reserved for (SC/ST/None) |
Member | Party | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mekliganj | SC | Paresh Chandra Adhikary | All India Forward Bloc | |
| Sitalkuchi | SC | Sudhir Pramanik | Communist Party of India | |
| Mathabhanga | SC | Dinesh Chandra Dakua | Communist Party of India | |
| Cooch Behar North | None | Dipak Chandra Sarker | All India Forward Bloc | |
| Cooch Behar West | None | Akshoy Thakur | All India Forward Bloc | |
| Sitai | None | Nripendra Nath Roy | All India Forward Bloc | |
| Dinhata | None | Kamal Guha | All India Forward Bloc | |
| Natabari | None | Tamser Ali | Communist Party of India | |
| Tufanganj | SC | Pushpa Chandra Das | Communist Party of India | |
| Kumargram | ST | Dasrath Tirkey | Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
| Kalchini | ST | Paban Kumar Lakra | Indian National Congress | |
| Alipurduars | None | Nirmal Das | Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
| Falakata | SC | Jogesh Chandra Barman | Communist Party of India | |
| Madarihat | ST | Kumari Kujur | Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
| Dhupguri | SC | Lakshmi Kanta Roy | Communist Party of India | |
| Nagrakata | ST | Chaitan Munda | Communist Party of India | |
| Mainaguri | SC | Bachchamohan Roy | Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
| Mal | ST | Somra Lakra | Communist Party of India | |
| Kranti | None | Sudhan Raha | Communist Party of India | |
| Jalpaiguri | None | Gobinda Roy | All India Forward Bloc | |
| Rajganj | SC | Jotindra Nath Roy | Communist Party of India | |
| Kalimpong | None | Goulan Lepcha | Gorkha National Liberation Front | |
| Darjeeling | None | D.k. Pradhan | Gorkha National Liberation Front | |
| Kurseong | None | Shanta Chettri | Gorkha National Liberation Front | |
| Siliguri | None | Asok Bhattacharya | Communist Party of India | |
| Phansidewa | ST | Prakash Minj | Communist Party of India | |
| Chopra | None | Hamidul Rahaman | Independent | |
| Islampur | None | Abdul Karim Chowdhary | All India Trinamool Congress | |
| Goalpokhar | None | Hafiz Alam Sairani | All India Forward Bloc | |
| Karandighi | None | Gokul Roy | All India Forward Bloc | |
| Raiganj | SC | Chittaranjan Roy | Indian National Congress | |
| Kaliaganj | SC | Pramathanath Roy | Indian National Congress | |
| Kushmandi | SC | Narmada Chandra Roy | Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
| Itahar | None | Srikumar Mukherjee | Communist Party of India | |
| Gangarampur | None | Narayan Biswas | Communist Party of India | |
| Tapan | Zdroj:https://en.wikipedia.org?pojem=2001_West_Bengal_Legislative_Assembly_election||||