Constituency
36. Belonia
Community mirrorTripura Assembly Election, 1977
TR-BELONIA
CPM 41.6%won by 0.9%INC 40.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 0.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 16.8% to 41.6% of the vote here (+24.8%).
- Knife-edgeDecided by 119 votes (0.91%) — among the closest results anywhere.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
13,110
Margin
119
0.91%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +23.7%
- CPM share
- 16.8% → 41.6%
- INC share
- 39.6% → 40.7%
- Turnout
- — → —