Constituency
53. Gauhati East
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1978
AS-GAUHATI-EAST
JNP 34.0%won by 5.8%CPM 28.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 5.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 34.0% of the vote here (+34.0%).
- Runner-up changedSecond place passed from Communist Party of India (CPI) to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 62.2% between them, down from 71.3% — 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
43,259
Margin
2,499
5.78%
Candidates
12 contested · winner JNP- 1AJOY KUMAR DUTTAJanata Party · JNP14,70234.0%
- 2NANDESWAR TALUKDARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM12,20328.2%
- 3BHANEDRA CHANDRA CHOUDHURYIndian National Congress · INC5,09511.8%
- 4NOGEN HAZARIKAIndependent · IND4,1249.5%
- 5BHOWARILAL SARAOGIIndependent · IND3,2607.5%
- 6MUNIN SARMAHIndian National Congress · INC2,4385.6%
- 7KHETRA PHUKANIndependent · IND4151.0%
- 8BHUBAN CH. NATHIndependent · IND3070.7%
- 9JANARDAN BEZBARUAHIndependent · IND2990.7%
- 10UPEN SARMAHIndependent · IND2260.5%
- 11RAGHUNATH TIWARIIndependent · IND1490.3%
- 12PRAHLAD RAI AJIT CHARIAIndependent · IND410.1%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–CPM swing
- +18.8%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 34.0%
- CPM share
- 13.0% → 28.2%
- Turnout
- — → —