Constituency
39. Habibpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-HABIBPUR
CPM 45.2%won by 22.6%JNP 22.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 22.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 29.5% to 45.2% of the vote here (+15.7%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 22.6% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.7% between them, down from 89.9% — 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
36,537
Margin
8,268
22.63%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1MURMU SARKARCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM16,50945.2%
- 2BOBILA MURMUJanata Party · JNP8,24122.6%
- 3JOSEPH TUDUIndian National Congress · INC5,83016.0%
- 4SANKAR MURMUCommunist Party of India · CPI5,04713.8%
- 5GOPINATH SORENIndependent · IND9102.5%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–JNP swing
- −6.9%
- CPM share
- 29.5% → 45.2%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 22.6%
- Turnout
- — → —