Constituency
81. Ranaghat West
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-RANAGHAT-WEST
CPM 56.7%won by 33.5%INC 23.2%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 33.5%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 39.5% to 56.7% of the vote here (+17.2%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.8% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
59,198
Margin
19,833
33.50%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +54.5%
- CPM share
- 39.5% → 56.7%
- INC share
- 60.5% → 23.2%
- Turnout
- — → —