Constituency
65. Kalaigaon
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1978
AS-KALAIGAON
JNP 55.2%won by 35.4%INC 19.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 35.4%.
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 55.2% of the vote here (+55.2%).
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 74.9% of the vote between them, up from 51.0% — a tighter two-way contest.
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
46,394
Margin
16,428
35.41%
Candidates
5 contested · winner JNP- 1NAGEN SARMAJanata Party · JNP25,59555.2%
- 2LAKSHMI KANTA SAIKIAIndian National Congress · INC9,16719.8%
- 3NABA KUMAR KARIndependent · IND4,87310.5%
- 4RATNESWAR SAHARIAIndian National Congress · INC4,1368.9%
- 5NABIN CHANDRA RABHACommunist Party of India · CPI2,6235.7%
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–INC swing
- +71.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 55.2%
- INC share
- 35.6% → 19.8%
- Turnout
- — → —