Constituency
4. Cooch Behar North
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-NORTH
FBL 63.1%won by 46.5%INC 16.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to FBL (FBL), which now leads by 46.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- FBL vote shareFBL went from 40.1% to 63.1% of the vote here (+23.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.6% between them, down from 98.9% — 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
51,991
Margin
24,200
46.55%
Candidates
7 contested · winner FBL- 1APARAJITA GOPPIFBL · FBL32,79263.1%
- 2BIMAL CHANDRA DHARIndian National Congress · INC8,59216.5%
- 3ARUN KUMAR BHATTACHARJYAJanata Party · JNP5,41910.4%
- 4SHYAMAL KUMAR CHOUDHURYIndependent · IND3,0085.8%
- 5DEBI PROSAD NEOGICommunist Party of India · CPI1,6853.2%
- 6HARIDAS GUHAIndependent · IND4170.8%
- 7SAMAR DEIndependent · IND780.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- FBLflipped
- FBL–INC swing
- +65.3%
- FBL share
- 40.1% → 63.1%
- INC share
- 58.8% → 16.5%
- Turnout
- — → —