Constituency
9. Silchar
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1978
AS-SILCHAR
CPM 44.6%won by 12.6%JNP 32.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 12.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 21.2% to 44.6% of the vote here (+23.4%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 32.0% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 76.6% between them, down from 99.2% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
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Turnout
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Valid votes
45,723
Margin
5,781
12.64%
Candidates
9 contested · winner CPM- 1NOORUL KUDACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,40944.6%
- 2KABINDRA PURKAYASTHANJanata Party · JNP14,62832.0%
- 3KARNENDU BHATTACHARJEEIndian National Congress · INC4,64810.2%
- 4SHAMS UDDIN AHMEDIndian National Congress · INC3,6297.9%
- 5PARITOSH PAUL CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND1,1422.5%
- 6BHOLA RABIDASIndependent · IND6511.4%
- 7A.B.AHMADULA HAQUEIndependent · IND2930.6%
- 8JITENDRA NATH CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND2040.4%
- 9HARENDRA CHANDRA PAULIndependent · IND1190.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–JNP swing
- −8.6%
- CPM share
- 21.2% → 44.6%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 32.0%
- Turnout
- — → —