Constituency
101. Basanti
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-BASANTI
RSP 52.3%won by 27.4%INC 24.9%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP), which now leads by 27.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- RSP vote shareRSP went from 44.7% to 52.3% of the vote here (+7.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.2% between them, down from 95.5% — 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
47,223
Margin
12,930
27.38%
Candidates
6 contested · winner RSP- 1KALIPADA BARMANRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP24,69552.3%
- 2CHITTARANJAN NASKARIndian National Congress · INC11,76524.9%
- 3PARESH KAYALJanata Party · JNP7,90816.7%
- 4CUNASINDHU SARDARIndependent · IND2,3595.0%
- 5ARDHENDU SEKHAR MONDALIndependent · IND4050.9%
- 6MUKTARAM SARDARIndependent · IND910.2%
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–INC swing
- +33.5%
- RSP share
- 44.7% → 52.3%
- INC share
- 50.8% → 24.9%
- Turnout
- — → —