Constituency
55. Lalgola
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-LALGOLA
INC 59.0%won by 40.2%CPM 18.8%
What changed here
DerivedIndian National Congress held the seat; the winning margin widened from 27.8% to 40.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.8% between them, down from 91.4% — the field split more ways.
- Safe seatIndian National Congress won by more than 25 points — a stronghold, not a contest.
- 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
52,798
Margin
21,215
40.18%
Candidates
6 contested · winner INC- 1ABDUS SATTARIndian National Congress · INC31,14459.0%
- 2ZAINAL AABEDINCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM9,92918.8%
- 3RANENDRA NARAYAN ROYIndependent · IND5,64610.7%
- 4MD. SAMAUNJanata Party · JNP4,9759.4%
- 5AYESH MOHAMMADIndependent · IND6691.3%
- 6BIPUL KUMAR SARKARIndependent · IND4350.8%
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–CPM swing
- +12.4%
- INC share
- 59.6% → 59.0%
- CPM share
- 31.8% → 18.8%
- Turnout
- — → —