The West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2001 was held in

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to elect 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.

Results

Left Front led by

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won 196 seats, a majority.

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Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was reelected as Chief Minister. Pankaj Kumar Banerjee of

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, took charge as Leader of the Opposition. For the first time since

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, no single party won a majority. This was also the first time since its landslide victory in

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West Bengal Socialist Party West Bengal Socialist Party (WBSP) was a political party in the Indian state of West Bengal. WBSP was formed when the Bengali socialists in the then Janata Party split in the beginning of the 1980s (the other faction became the Democratic Soci ...

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Gorkha National Liberation Front Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) is a political party in the Darjeeling District of West Bengal, India. It was formed in 1980 by Subhash Ghisingh with the objective of demanding a Gorkhaland state within India. Early history Part of the ...

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Hashim Abdul Halim Hashim Abdul Halim (5 June 1935 – 2 November 2015) was an Indian Communist and politician who was Speaker of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly from 1982 to 2011. Life and career Halim started his career as a practising lawyer. Halim's fath ...

was nominated as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly, while Anil Kumar Mukherjee was nominated as Deputy Speaker.

References

External links

West Bangal General Legislative Election Results
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