Constituency
40. Gajol
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-GAJOL
CPM 52.5%won by 21.7%JNP 30.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 21.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 33.5% to 52.5% of the vote here (+19.0%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 30.9% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 83.4% between them, down from 93.6% — 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
39,060
Margin
8,470
21.68%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1SUFAL MURMUCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,52652.5%
- 2SHYAM MURMUJanata Party · JNP12,05630.9%
- 3BENJAMIN HEMBRAMIndian National Congress · INC5,11813.1%
- 4LAL TUDUIndependent · IND1,3603.5%
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–JNP swing
- −11.9%
- CPM share
- 33.5% → 52.5%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 30.9%
- Turnout
- — → —