Constituency
58. Murshidabad
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-MURSHIDABAD
FBL 37.0%won by 9.6%JNP 27.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to FBL (FBL), which now leads by 9.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- FBL vote shareFBL went from 0.0% to 37.0% of the vote here (+37.0%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 27.4% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.4% between them, down from 90.1% — 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
47,343
Margin
4,564
9.64%
Candidates
9 contested · winner FBL- 1CHHAYA GHOSHFBL · FBL17,52437.0%
- 2SYED NAWAB JANI MEERZAJanata Party · JNP12,96027.4%
- 3MAHAMMAD EDRIS ALIIndian National Congress · INC10,66322.5%
- 4FAZLU RAHAMANIndependent · IND3,1566.7%
- 5NAKSHED ALIIndependent · IND1,2012.5%
- 6PRAFULLA KUMAR BANERJEEIndependent · IND7481.6%
- 7SYED ABDUL QUASHEM MIAMUL · MUL5311.1%
- 8AMARENDRA NATH MANDAL ( NANI BABU )Independent · IND3660.8%
- 9TARUN KANTI SARKARIndependent · IND1940.4%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- FBLflipped
- FBL–JNP swing
- +9.6%
- FBL share
- 0.0% → 37.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 27.4%
- Turnout
- — → —