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2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election

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

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

Event	Date
Date for Nominations	16 April 2001
Last Date for filing Nominations	23 April 2001
Date for scrutiny of nominations	24 April 2001
Last date for withdrawal of candidatures	26 April 2001
Date of poll	10 May 2001
Date of counting	13 May 2001

Flag	Leader	Contesting Seats
Communist Party of India (Marxist)		Buddhadeb Bhattacharya	210	216
Democratic Socialist Party	Prabodh Chandra Sinha	2
Revolutionary Communist Party of India (Rasik Bhatt)	Rasik Bhatt	2
Marxist Forward Bloc	Pratim Chatterjee	1
Biplobi Bangla Congress		1
All India Forward Bloc		Debabrata Biswas	34
Revolutionary Socialist Party		Kshiti Goswami	23
Communist Party of India		A. B. Bardhan	13
West Bengal Socialist Party		Kiranmoy Nanda	4
Janata Dal (Secular)		H. D. Deve Gowda	2
Rashtriya Janata Dal		Lalu Prasad Yadav	2

Flag	Contesting Seats
All India Trinamool Congress	Mamata Banerjee	226
Indian National Congress	Pranab Mukherjee	60
Jharkhand Mukti Morcha	Shibu Soren	5
Gorkha National Liberation Front		5

Flag	Contesting Seats
Bharatiya Janata Party	Tapan Sikdar	266
Janata Dal (United)	Nitish Kumar	14
Samata Party	George Fernandes	7
Lok Janshakti Party	Ram Vilas Paswan	4

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.

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
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, while Anil Kumar Mukherjee was nominated as Deputy Speaker.

West Bangal General Legislative Election Results at the Election Commission of India

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