Constituency
5. Cooch Behar West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-COOCH-BEHAR-WEST
FBL 66.2%won by 43.7%INC 22.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to FBL (FBL), which now leads by 43.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- FBL vote shareFBL went from 31.4% to 66.2% of the vote here (+34.7%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 88.7% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
50,765
Margin
22,168
43.67%
Candidates
4 contested · winner FBL- 1BIMAL KANTI BASUFBL · FBL33,59566.2%
- 2MAQSUDAR RAHMANIndian National Congress · INC11,42722.5%
- 3GANESH CHANDRA KARMAKARJanata Party · JNP5,55310.9%
- 4RAJAT KUMAR CHAKRAVARTYIndependent · IND1900.4%
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
- +80.8%
- FBL share
- 31.4% → 66.2%
- INC share
- 68.6% → 22.5%
- Turnout
- — → —