Constituency
68. Bharatpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-BHARATPUR
RSP 51.6%won by 32.9%IND 18.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP), which now leads by 32.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- RSP vote shareRSP went from 0.0% to 51.6% of the vote here (+51.6%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 18.8% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.4% between them, down from 98.7% — 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
40,161
Margin
13,201
32.87%
Candidates
7 contested · winner RSP- 1SATYAPADA BHATTACHARYYARashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP20,74351.6%
- 2ABDUL MANNANIndependent · IND7,54218.8%
- 3TARUN KUMAR BANERJEEIndian National Congress · INC4,55911.4%
- 4K. K. SIDDIQUEIndependent · IND3,3098.2%
- 5ABHOY PADA SAHAJanata Party · JNP3,0977.7%
- 6KHO. LUTHFOR RAHAMANMUL · MUL4931.2%
- 7HIRALAL DASIndependent · IND4181.0%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- RSPflipped
- RSP–IND swing
- +32.9%
- RSP share
- 0.0% → 51.6%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 18.8%
- Turnout
- — → —