Constituency
75. Sootea
Community mirrorAssam Assembly Election, 1978
AS-SOOTEA
JNP 37.2%won by 10.8%INC 26.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 10.8%.
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 37.2% of the vote here (+37.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 63.6% between them, down from 73.5% — 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
37,694
Margin
4,072
10.80%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JNP- 1GOLOK KAKATIJanata Party · JNP14,01837.2%
- 2NARAYAN BHUYANIndian National Congress · INC9,94626.4%
- 3PURNANANDA SARMAHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,31124.7%
- 4DULAL CHANDRA BHUYANIndependent · IND2,7137.2%
- 5DIMBESWAR SARMAHIndian National Congress · INC1,5924.2%
- 6KSHEM PRASAD UPADHAYAYAIndependent · IND1140.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1978. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–INC swing
- +52.8%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 37.2%
- INC share
- 42.0% → 26.4%
- Turnout
- — → —