Constituency
75. Krishnagar East
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-KRISHNAGAR-EAST
JNP 43.1%won by 0.4%CPM 42.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 0.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 43.1% of the vote here (+43.1%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 85.8% between them, down from 98.9% — 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
47,906
Margin
204
0.43%
Candidates
4 contested · winner JNP- 1KASHIKANTA MAITRAJanata Party · JNP20,64943.1%
- 2SADHAN CHTTOPADHDYAYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM20,44542.7%
- 3RADHA RAMAN SAHAIndian National Congress · INC5,06210.6%
- 4HARAPRASAD MAHURIIndependent · IND1,7503.7%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–CPM swing
- +23.6%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 43.1%
- CPM share
- 23.1% → 42.7%
- Turnout
- — → —