Legislative Assembly elections were held in Indian state of West Bengal in 2001 to elect 294 members of the West Bengal Legislative Assembly.
Schedule EventDate 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
Seat Allotment
Party Flag Symbol 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 Total 294
Party Flag Symbol Leader 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 Total 294+2
Party Flag Symbol Leader 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 Total 279+12
List of Candidates