Constituency
14. Madarihat
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-MADARIHAT
RSP 50.1%won by 21.5%INC 28.6%
What changed here
DerivedRashtriya Sarvajan Party held the seat; the winning margin widened from 8.1% to 21.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Multi-cornered3 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
35,971
Margin
7,738
21.51%
Candidates
5 contested · winner RSP- 1A. H. BESTERWITCHRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP18,03750.1%
- 2DHIRENDRA NARJINARYIndian National Congress · INC10,29928.6%
- 3SAUN LAKRAJanata Party · JNP7,11419.8%
- 4PABAN KUMAR ROYIndependent · IND3981.1%
- 5AJOY KUMAR BASUMATAIndependent · IND1230.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- RSP
- Winner now
- RSP
- RSP–INC swing
- +13.4%
- RSP share
- 43.7% → 50.1%
- INC share
- 35.6% → 28.6%
- Turnout
- — → —