Constituency
54. Jangipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-JANGIPUR
INC 42.1%won by 18.8%SUC 23.3%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 6.8% to 18.8%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.5% between them, down from 77.8% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 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
50,770
Margin
9,545
18.80%
Candidates
7 contested · winner INC- 1HABIBUR RAHAMANIndian National Congress · INC21,39542.1%
- 2ACHINTYA SINGHASUC · SUC11,85023.3%
- 3ASHRAF HOSSAINIndependent · IND8,96417.7%
- 4MRINMOY BAGCHIRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP3,7407.4%
- 5ANISUR RAHAMANJanata Party · JNP2,4474.8%
- 6T. A. NURAN NABIIndependent · IND2,2454.4%
- 7MD. KAMALUDDINMUL · MUL1290.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- INC
- INC–SUC swing
- +12.0%
- INC share
- 42.3% → 42.1%
- SUC share
- 35.5% → 23.3%
- Turnout
- — → —