Constituency
16. Bishalgarh
Community mirrorTripura Assembly Election, 1977
TR-BISHALGARH
CPM 45.5%won by 15.5%JNP 29.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 15.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 30.7% to 45.5% of the vote here (+14.8%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 29.9% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote consolidatedThe top two candidates took 75.4% of the vote between them, up from 63.0% — 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
11,841
Margin
1,838
15.52%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1GAUTAM PRASAD DUTTACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM5,38445.5%
- 2SAMIR RANJAN BARMANJanata Party · JNP3,54629.9%
- 3TUKA MIAHTCD · TCD2,51021.2%
- 4SUDHANSHU RANJAN DHARIndian National Congress · INC1231.0%
- 5SUSHIL KUMAR DASPBI · PBI990.8%
- 6RATIALAL DEBBARMAIndependent · IND960.8%
- 7BAISHNAB CHARAN SAHAIndependent · IND450.4%
- 8BISHNAPADA ACHARJEEIndependent · IND380.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–JNP swing
- −15.2%
- CPM share
- 30.7% → 45.5%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 29.9%
- Turnout
- — → —