Constituency
9. Tufanganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-TUFANGANJ
CPM 59.1%won by 35.6%JNP 23.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 35.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 32.7% to 59.1% of the vote here (+26.4%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 23.5% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 82.6% 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
48,351
Margin
17,211
35.60%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPMSince 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
- +2.9%
- CPM share
- 32.7% → 59.1%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 23.5%
- Turnout
- — → —