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	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A change in the situation became evident from the results of the last Lok Sabha election in 2004 and the results of the election of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation in 2005.
		It was clear from the Lok Sabha polls that in most of the assembly segments of the city’s parliamentary constituencies, the left had secured majority of the votes.
		The principal plank of the left’s election campaign in this election is the new industrial policy of Mr Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1060427/asp/opinion/story_6148797.asp (386 words)

	Small swing, big sweep
		As the Assembly election results from West Bengal demonstrate, people voting against the incumbent government is not a reflex action.
		The swing was the result of small chunks of voters from all sections of society moving towards the UDF.
		In that sense, this round of Assembly elections in Kerala was a routine affair.
	www.hindu.com /fline/fl1811/18111180.htm (1954 words)

	Asia Society: Publications - The Thirteenth Election of India's Lok Sabha
		The 1989 election's core issue was corruption, and some interpreted the increased vote share of the BJP in that election as a reflection of the increasing influence of a middle class increasing rapidly in size.
		Elections in which a "wave" of public support for a party meant that even a "lamppost" candidate could be elected on a surging party's ticket are rare; and there are few genuinely "safe" seats for any party.
		The simultaneous elections to the state assemblies in Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka add a major factor to the analysis of those states, which have 118 seats (20 percent of the total Lok Sabha): the voters' added attention to the record of the party ruling in the state.
	www.asiasociety.org /publications/indian_elections.13.a.html (11591 words)

	Khaleej Times - Online
		Results of the election for the 182-seat assembly are to be declared on Sunday.
		The election results are scheduled to be announced Sunday, but an official said 63 percent of the 32.8 million registered voters cast their ballots in 25 districts.
		Election to one constituency was postponed because of the death of a candidate in the runup to Thursday's balloting.
	www.khaleejtimes.co.ae /ktarchive/131202/subcont.htm (10186 words)

	CNN.com - Ex-film star and convict wins in Indian vote - May 13, 2001
		Latest results from the four states and one federally supervised territory which held legislative assembly elections on Thursday also showed a strong lead for the communists in the eastern state of West Bengal, which they have ruled for 24 years.
		Four of 10 people killed in election violence on Thursday died in West Bengal and the rest in the northeastern state of Assam, where separatist guerrillas tried to disrupt the poll.
		West Bengal's opposition alliance, led by communist-baiter Mamata Banerjee, had won just 30 seats and was ahead in 55.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/05/10/india.elections.03 (673 words)

	BEHIND A FAMOUS VICTORY
		The Left Front in West Bengal returns to power for a record sixth time, riding the crest of an impressive pro-incumbency wave, and gets down to the task of setting development priorities and building on the achievements of the past 24 years when it was in power.
		AS the results of the elections to the five Assemblies began to be telecast on May 13, a trend quickly became evident.
		In West Bengal, by contrast, the odds appeared to be stacked against the Left Front returning to power for the sixth time.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1812/18120040.htm (1942 words)

	The Hindu : Book Review : West Bengal election results
		The detailed results of the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections in West Bengal since 1952 is supplemented by information about members of the Council of the Lieutenant Governor of Bengal from 1862.
		The Eastern Bengal and Assam Legislative Council (1906-12), which followed the Partition of Bengal, also forms part of the book, as does the list of members of the Bengal Legislative Assembly from 1937 to 1945.
		The annexure, which includes a history of the West Bengal Legislature by the Speaker of the House, H.A. Halim, and rulings on declaring a leader of the main opposition party as the Leader of the Opposition, will, like the rest of the book, be useful to historians and research scholars looking for quick reference.
	www.hindu.com /br/2006/02/21/stories/2006022100371800.htm (401 words)

	Assembly Elections 2001: Expressindia.com in association with The Indian Express
		Jayalalitha, who was barred from running in the election because of a corruption conviction against her, was chief minister of the state between 1991 and 1996.
		Latest results from the four states and one union territory which held legislative Assembly elections on Thursday also showed a strong lead for the Communists in West Bengal, which they have ruled for 24 years.
		Four of the 10 people killed in election violence on Thursday died in West Bengal and the rest in Assam, where separatist militants tried to disrupt the poll.
	www.expressindia.com /election/tn/tam0513.html (654 words)

	Rediff On The NeT: The Reds have it tough in West Bengal
		Since 1977, when the Left Front stormed to power in West Bengal, it had nothing to worry as the Congress was always divided and, except in 1984, its Lok Sabha members remained at four.
		In the October 3 election, the Congress poll percentage is expected to drop further.
		But in rural Bengal, considered to be the red bastion, covering 216 segments, the Left Front marched ahead with 49.42 per cent votes while the Trinamul-BJP polled 30.62 per cent votes.
	www.rediff.com /election/1999/sep/28cal.htm (625 words)

	ETV-Bangla zooms in on West Bengal assembly elections
		ETV-Bangla zooms in on West Bengal assembly elections
		Keeping the politically aware Bengali in its sights, ETV - Bangla News will be organising comprehensive coverage of the forthcoming assembly elections in West Bengal to be held in May. Programming has been divided into two phases - pre-election and results day with a close look at the post election scenario.
		Results day will be a 15-hour show covering the whole of counting day.
	www.indiantelevision.com /tube/y2k1/mar/martube15.htm (207 words)

	India Election Results Rattle Ruling Nationalists - Christianity Today Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		In West Bengal, a seat that belonged to the Communist Party of India (CPI) was retained, and a third seat in Tamil Nadu that belonged to the BJP was lost to AIADMK.
		In West Bengal, the BJP lost its ally, the Trinamul Congress, whose two leaders were cabinet ministers in Vajpayee's government.
		Elections India includes an explanation of the electoral system of India, a breakdown of the recent state elections and a listing of the parties.
	www.christianitytoday.com /ct/2001/124/34.0.html (2585 words)

	Role of Media Crucial
		Introduction: The extent of rigging in West Bengal is as extensive as in Bihar.
		The wild accusations by Mamata Banerjee against the outgoing Chief Election Commissioner in the context of rigging in the just-concluded State Assembly elections in West Bengal are deplorable.
		The Election Commission is empowered, according to Article 324 of the Constitution, to hold elections for Parliament, the State Legislatives, and the President and the Vice-President.
	www.hvk.org /articles/0601/27.html (1383 words)

	'Group of regimented Stalinists has ruined WB'
		Election 2006 is no exception to this rule.
		It gives me enormous pleasure to declare that West Bengal is going to witness free and fair polls for the first time in its history.
		West Bengal has been ruined by a group of regimented Stalinists.
	ia.rediff.com /election/2006/may/02inter.htm (865 words)

	Tamil Nadu polls will be the most competitive, West Bengal the least (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		However, West Bengal, which lies on the opposite side of the political spectrum, has on an average only five candidates contesting for each seat, making it the least competitive one.
		With West Bengal almost certain of witnessing the return of the Left again, the number of candidates here too is less.
		In spite of having independent candidates in the same proportion as West Bengal, Asom, has a higher number of candidates contesting per seat due to new parties like Asom Gana Parishad (Progressive) formed by the former Asom Chief Minister Prafulla Kumar Mohanta which is contesting 90 assembly segments.
	news.webindia123.com /news/Articles/India/20060508/327360.html (326 words)

	Netguruindia News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		January 10: The Election Commission on Wednesday announced that Assembly elections in four states will be held in the third week of May. The states are Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and Assam.
		Assembly elections in the Union Territory of Pondicherry will also be held at the same time, Chief Election Commissioner MS Gill said.
		The terms of Assemblies in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, West Bengal and Assam expire on 21 May, 28 May, 9 June and June 11, respectively, while the Pondicherry Assembly expires on 9 June.
	www.netguruindia.com /news/Jan01/11/NAT8.html (176 words)

	Panchayat Election in West Bengal
		The notification of the panchayat election took place on 3rd April 2003 and the last date for filing nominations was 16th April.
		There was a 16.76% decrease in the number of gram panchayat seats held by the LF in 1998 compared to 1988 (66.48% in 1988, 57.97% in 1993 and 47.72% in 1998).
		In fact, this campaign had begun right in the wake of last Assembly elections when the CPI(M) celebrated its victory and the unexpected defeat suffered by the TMC by forcibly ‘reclaiming’ several marginal panchayats from the control of the erstwhile TMC-BJP alliance.
	www.cpiml.org /liberation/year_2003/June/WestBengal.htm (1429 words)

	Daily Excelsior... Editorial
		The BJP president, K Jana Krishnamurthy, did admit that the results of the Assembly elections would affect the NDA in the Rajya Sabha, where the Government was already in a minority.
		But these Assembly elections should serve as a grim reminder to out political parties that their fate, and future, lies ultimately in the hands of the people.
		The two States on which the betters had put their maximum money were West Bengal and Tamil Nadu-both being places where the picture had remained somewhat hazy till the end, in terms of the trends.
	www.dailyexcelsior.com /01may15/edit.htm (4903 words)

	The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - Editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Combine it with the stunning effect of the Assembly election results, the delay in shaping a reasoned response is understandable.
		HILE the complicated adoption law is leading to child trafficking in Andhra Pradesh, which is indeed shocking, the recent reports of child slave trade in West and Central Africa are hurting the conscience of mankind.
		In West Bengal, by putting up 200 candidates it split the anti-Left Front vote, ensuring the defeat of the Trinamool Congress-Congress combination in some southwestern districts.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2001/20010515/edit.htm (6415 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Maharashtra Assembly polls — Advantage, Congress-NCP
		This is an important caveat because the story of this election clearly is the huge number of rebels who are in the fray as independents from both the fronts.
		The public rallies he was scheduled to address during this all-important election — important because it would test the saffron parties' ability to come back after the huge reverses the NDA faced in the Lok Sabha elections this May — were confined to four, but two of these have been cancelled because of his ill-health.
		The result is an unprecedented number of rebels in the fray in a party where dissent has been virtually unknown except as when Mr Chhagan Bhujbal left the party.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2004/10/06/stories/2004100600060800.htm (1514 words)

	World Prout Assembly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		As a result the human beings, animals, buildings, agriculture and natural environment of this area are regularly subjected to violent cyclones which cause untold loss of life and property.
		As a result a large number of widows in Afghanistan were forced into prostitution to feed their children.
		It has not been formed as a result of cyclic changes in the economic sphere of the world like the evolution of communism; but it is a radical change in all existing economic practices or theories conceived so far.
	www.worldproutassembly.org (4511 words)

	CNN.com - Opposition flays Govt in Indian polls - May 13, 2001
		Five of the 16 people killed on voting day were in West Bengal and the rest were in the northeastern state of Assam, where separatist guerrillas called a boycott that was largely ignored.
		In the eastern state of West Bengal, the communists, who have ruled the state for 24 years, swept the polls, winning 200 out of the 294 seats in the state assembly.
		In the 30-seat Pondicherry state assembly, an alliance led by the Congress party emerged the winner in 13 districts.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/WORLD/asiapcf/south/05/13/india.elections.04 (991 words)

	Sharp polarisation in Bihar
		The difference in the vote-shares of the two alliances is close to 7 percentage points; the results in 22 constituencies were decided by margins less than a 5 per cent of the votes polled.
		The data released by the Election Commission have made it possible to speculate on what the overall tally of seats in the Assembly would be.
		Had the Assembly and Lok Sabha elections been held simultaneously, and the electorate voted in the same manner for each, then the BJP-JD(U) combine would have won a convincing majority, 177 of the 279 seats for which data are available ; and the RJD-Congress(I) would have won 81.
	www.flonnet.com /fl1625/16250360.htm (1459 words)

	BBC News \| SOUTH ASIA \| Rerun in Indian state polls
		About 130 people were eligible to vote in Tamil Nadu, Assam, Kerala, West Bengal and Pondicherry in what is being seen as a test of the credibility of the BJP-led coalition government in Delhi.
		Voting in Assam and West Bengal was the worst affected, with a total of at least 16 people killed in the two states.
		Despite the violence in Assam and West Bengal, voter turnout there was said to be close to 70%.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/south_asia/1325475.stm (347 words)

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		The election results of West Bengal have just shown that Ms Mamata Banerjee is not that rare individual who on her own can defeat an extraordinary organization of a mass party.
		The results of the election have shown that even if Banerjee spoke for all anti-left aspirations, she was not really a formidable challenger to left rule in West Bengal.
		The results are a clear statement of the supremacy of the organization and the latter may not allow the chief minister his own head.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1010514/editoria.htm (5740 words)

	Khaleej Times Online - India’s leftist strongholds vote in state polls
		The first-phase of election process concluded on April 17 in three Maoist-dominated districts of West Bengal without any trouble despite a boycott call from the rebels.
		Past elections in the eastern state, which shares a long border with Bangladesh, have been dominated by issues like infiltration of Bangladeshis across the porous border, denied by Dhaka, and clashes between rival political groups.
		In West Bengal, the left parties back the federal coalition but the communists are aiming for a seventh straight term since 1977.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2006/April/subcontinent_April848.xml§ion=subcontinent (323 words)

	Trinamul Congress, West Bengal, India @ whatisindia.com
		With the Left Front in power since 1977, for a section of the people in West Bengal the Trinamul Congress was the only party that looked like being capable of bringing about a change in government.
		In the 2001 Assembly elections, the Left Front retained power for a record sixth time in a row, winning 199 of the 294 seats.
		he results in West Bengal are a foregone conclusion; only the margin of victory is to be known.
	www.whatisindia.com /issues/trinamul (1089 words)

	The Daily Star Web Edition Vol. 5 Num 554 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The elections to various provincial assemblies were rigged in all parts of West Pakistan.
		Instead of industrializing the East and developing agriculture in West Pakistan -- as had been suggested by most unofficial economists and at least a few official advisors and which was the normal course that ought to have been followed -- the priorities were reversed or rather skewed to benefit West Pakistan in both sectors.
		His refusal to accept the 1970 election results and refusal to call the Assembly session were a clear and final signal to Bengalis that their only option was to go on living under a military dictatorship of a basically West Pakistani Army.
	www.thedailystar.net /2005/12/17/d512171502100.htm (1166 words)

	Peasant Convention in Bengal
		The Left Front government in West Bengal had faced, particularly in the last decade, resentments of various degrees from different sections of the people.
		If one reason for that is its land reform measures of limited worth, the other important reason is that, the party pretends to be the only inheritor of the cumulative achievements of the left movement in the state in the last four and a half decades.
		On 27th June, 1995, on the floor of assembly, they moved the West Bengal Land Reforms (Amendment) Bill, 1996, which enables any person or a company to hold any amount of ceiling surplus land for the purpose of agri-business, agri-industry or any industry for that matter, not excluding a real estate business.
	www.cpiml.org /liberation/year_1996/november/report3.htm (645 words)

	DAWN - Opinion; June 17, 2002
		It is for the Election Commission of Pakistan to establish some firm framework or guidelines for the coming general election.
		As a result, the strategic balance was restored in the region.
		The result was a disaster as Pakistan slipped back on the low-growth platform, with the GDP rate dropping to 2.6 per cent in the second year of the Musharraf government.
	www.dawn.com /2002/06/17/op.htm (5365 words)

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