Constituency
99. Hingalganj
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-HINGALGANJ
CPM 43.9%won by 23.4%JNP 20.6%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 23.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 34.8% to 43.9% of the vote here (+9.2%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 20.6% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.5% between them, down from 70.5% — 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
53,436
Margin
12,486
23.37%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1SUDHANGSHU MONDALCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM23,47543.9%
- 2AMAL KRISHNA MISTRIJanata Party · JNP10,98920.6%
- 3SANKAR RAYIndian National Congress · INC10,88320.4%
- 4ANIL KRISHNA MONDALCommunist Party of India · CPI7,70114.4%
- 5HARI CHANDAN DASIndependent · IND3880.7%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–JNP swing
- −11.4%
- CPM share
- 34.8% → 43.9%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 20.6%
- Turnout
- — → —