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{{Infobox election
| election_name = 2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
| country = India
| type = parliamentary
| ongoing = no
| previous_election = 1996 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
| previous_year = 1996
| next_election = 2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election
| next_year = 2006
| election_date = 10 May 2001
| seats_for_election = All 294 seats in the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]]
| turnout = 75.29%
| image1 = [[File:Buddhadev Bhattacharjee.jpg|100x100px]]
| image1_upright =
| leader1 = [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharya]]
| party1 = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
| alliance1 = [[Left Front (West Bengal)|LF]]
| leaders_seat1 = Jadavpur
| seats1 = 143
| seat_change1 = {{decrease}} 14
| popular_vote1 = 13,402,603
| percentage1 = 36.59%
| swing1 = {{decrease}} 1.33%
| image2 = [[File:Mamata banerjee.jpg|100x100px]]
| image2_upright =
| leader2 = [[Mamata Banerjee]]
| leaders_seat2 = None
| party2 = All India Trinamool Congress
| alliance2 = [[National Democratic Alliance|NDA]]
| seats2 = 60
| seat_change2 = {{decrease}} 22
| popular_vote2 = 11,229,396
| percentage2 = 30.66%
| swing2 = n/a
| image3 = [[File:Unknown person.jpg|100x100px]]
| image3_upright =
| leader3 =
| leaders_seat3 = None
| party3 = Indian National Congress
| alliance3 = [[United Progressive Alliance|UPA]]
| seats3 = 26
| seat_change3 = {{decrease}} 56
| popular_vote3 =
| percentage3 = 8%
| swing3 = {{decrease}} 31.5%
| image4 = [[File:Unknown person.jpg|100x100px]]
| image4_upright =
| leader4 =
| leaders_seat4 = None
| party4 = All India Forward Bloc
| alliance4 = Left Front (West Bengal)
| seats4 = 25
| seat_change4 = {{increase}} 4
| popular_vote4 =
| percentage4 = 5.7%
| swing4 = {{increase}} 0.5%
| image5 = [[File:Unknown person.jpg|100x100px]]
| image5_upright =
| leader5 =
| leaders_seat5 = None
| party5 = Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)
| alliance5 = Left Front (West Bengal)
| seats5 = 17
| seat_change5 = {{decrease}} 1
| popular_vote5 =
| percentage5 = 3.4%
| swing5 = {{decrease}} 0.3%
| image6 = [[File:Unknown person.jpg|100x100px]]
| image6_upright =
| leader6 =
| leaders_seat6 = None
| party6 = Communist Party of India
| alliance6 = Left Front (West Bengal)
| seats6 = 7
| seat_change6 = {{increase}} 1
| popular_vote6 =
| percentage6 = 1.8%
| swing6 = {{increase}} 0.1%
| map_image =
| map_size =
| map_caption =
| title = [[Chief Minister of West Bengal|Chief Minister]]
| before_election = [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]
| before_party = Left Front (West Bengal)
| after_election = [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]]
| after_party = Left Front (West Bengal)
| flag_image =
| majority_seats = 148
}}

The '''West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2001''' was held in [[India]]n state of [[West Bengal]] to elect 294 members of the [[West Bengal Legislative Assembly]].<ref name=eci>{{cite web|url=http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/statisticalreports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf|title=Statistical Report on General Election, 2001 to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal|publisher=[[Election Commission of India]]}}</ref>

==Results==
[[Left Front (West Bengal)|Left Front]] led by [[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]] won 196 seats, a majority. [[Chief Minister of West Bengal|Chief Minister]] [[Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee]] was reelected as Chief Minister. Pankaj Kumar Banerjee of [[All India Trinamool Congress]], took charge as Leader of the Opposition.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://wbassembly.gov.in/html/leadersOfOp.html | title=Leaders Of Opposition (of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly) | access-date=13 March 2014 | website=wbassembly.gov.in}}</ref>
{{election table|title=Summary of results of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly election, 2001<ref name= eci />|sortable=yes}}
|- align=center
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" class="unsortable"|
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" align=center|Political Party 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of candidates 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |No. of elected 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Number of Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |% of Votes 
!style="background-color:#E9E9E9" |Seat change 
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India (Marxist)}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]||211||143||13,402,603||36.59%||
|-
| {{party color cell|All India Trinamool Congress}}
|align="left"|[[All India Trinamool Congress]]||226||60||11,229,396||30.66%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Indian National Congress}}
|align="left"|[[Indian National Congress]]||60||26||2,921,151||7.98%||
|-
| {{party color cell|All India Forward Bloc}}
|align="left"|[[All India Forward Bloc]]||34||25||2,067,944||5.65%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)}}
|align="left"|[[Revolutionary Socialist Party (India)|Revolutionary Socialist Party]]||23||17||1,256,951||3.43%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Communist Party of India]]||13||7||655,237||1.79%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[West Bengal Socialist Party]]||4||4||246,407||0.67%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Gorkha National Liberation Front}}
|align="left"|[[Gorkha National Liberation Front]]||5||3||190,057||0.52%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Communist Party of India}}
|align="left"|[[Biplobi Bangla Congress]]||1||1||62,611||0.09%||
|-
| {{party color cell|Independent (politician)}}
|align="left"|[[Independent (politician)|Independents]]||530||9||1,848,830||5.05%||
|-
|
|align="left"|'''Total'''||'''1676'''||'''294'''||'''36,626,099'''||||
|-
|}

[[Hashim Abdul Halim]] was nominated as Speaker of the Legislative Assembly,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://wbassembly.gov.in/html/speakers.html | title=Names and Tenure of Speakers (of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly) | access-date=13 March 2014 | website=wbassembly.gov.in}}</ref> while Anil Kumar Mukherjee was nominated as Deputy Speaker.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://wbassembly.gov.in/html/deputySpkr.html | title=Names And Tenure Of Deputy Speakers (of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly) | access-date=13 March 2014 | website=wbassembly.gov.in}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://eci.gov.in/files/category/94-west-bengal/ West Bangal General Legislative Election Results] at the ''[[Election Commission of India]]''

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