Constituency
7. Dinhata
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-DINHATA
FBL 56.3%won by 35.5%INC 20.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to FBL (FBL), which now leads by 35.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- FBL vote shareFBL went from 39.9% to 56.3% of the vote here (+16.5%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.1% between them, down from 98.4% — 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
59,766
Margin
21,217
35.50%
Candidates
4 contested · winner FBL- 1KAMAL KANTI GUHAFBL · FBL33,66056.3%
- 2ALOK KUMAR NANDIIndian National Congress · INC12,44320.8%
- 3SADHAN BASUJanata Party · JNP6,91211.6%
- 4GOGESH CHANDRA SARKARIndependent · IND6,75111.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- FBLflipped
- FBL–INC swing
- +54.1%
- FBL share
- 39.9% → 56.3%
- INC share
- 58.5% → 20.8%
- Turnout
- — → —