Constituency
114. Garden Reach
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-GARDEN-REACH
CPM 48.1%won by 18.6%INC 29.5%
What changed here
DerivedCommunist Party of India (Marxist) held the seat; the winning margin widened from 2.7% to 18.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 77.6% between them, down from 98.1% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered4 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
47,273
Margin
8,772
18.56%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1CHHEDILAL SINGHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM22,71948.1%
- 2S. M. ABDULLAHIndian National Congress · INC13,94729.5%
- 3ARUN SENCommunist Party of India · CPI6,38813.5%
- 4SHAHSNSHAH JEHANGIR GHAFFARJanata Party · JNP2,6475.6%
- 5ZAHURUL ISLAMMUL · MUL9051.9%
- 6RAM SARANRPI · RPI5931.3%
- 7RASH BEHARI SINGHIndependent · IND740.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPM
- Winner now
- CPM
- CPM–INC swing
- +15.8%
- CPM share
- 50.4% → 48.1%
- INC share
- 47.7% → 29.5%
- Turnout
- — → —