Constituency
18. Mal
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-MAL
CPM 43.0%won by 19.6%INC 23.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 19.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 38.2% to 43.0% of the vote here (+4.8%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.4% 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
39,797
Margin
7,785
19.56%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1MOHAN LAL ORAONCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM17,09943.0%
- 2ANTANI TOPNOIndian National Congress · INC9,31423.4%
- 3BIRENDRA NATH KATHAMJanata Party · JNP6,53016.4%
- 4PREM ORAONCommunist Party of India · CPI4,81612.1%
- 5GYAN PROKAS TETEIndependent · IND2,0385.1%
Since 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–INC swing
- +43.2%
- CPM share
- 38.2% → 43.0%
- INC share
- 61.8% → 23.4%
- Turnout
- — → —