Constituency
23. Darjeeling
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-DARJEELING
IND 31.8%won by 10.6%CPM 21.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: IGL (IGL) lost it to Independent (IND), which now leads by 10.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- New challengerCommunist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) finished second with 21.2% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 52.9% between them, down from 74.1% — 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
39,705
Margin
4,193
10.56%
Candidates
10 contested · winner IND- 1DEO PRAKASH RAIIndependent · IND12,60731.8%
- 2SANGDOPAL LEPCHACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM8,41421.2%
- 3MADAN KUMAR THAPAIndependent · IND5,31113.4%
- 4P. P. RAIIndian National Congress · INC5,23513.2%
- 5KHALING NIRMAL CHANDRAJanata Party · JNP4,87612.3%
- 6NANDALAL GURUNGIndependent · IND1,9524.9%
- 7DALBAHADUR SINGH GAHATRAJIndependent · IND5901.5%
- 8SANTOSH KUMAR GURUNGIGL · IGL3831.0%
- 9SUBHASH GHISINGIndependent · IND2690.7%
- 10MADAN KUMAR RAIIndependent · IND680.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- IGL
- Winner now
- INDflipped
- IND–CPM swing
- −18.2%
- IND share
- 28.8% → 31.8%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 21.2%
- Turnout
- — → —