Constituency
118. Falta
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-FALTA
CPM 64.4%won by 37.3%INC 27.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 37.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 45.4% to 64.4% of the vote here (+19.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 91.5% between them, down from 99.1% — 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
50,149
Margin
18,725
37.34%
Candidates
6 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
- +45.6%
- CPM share
- 45.4% → 64.4%
- INC share
- 53.7% → 27.1%
- Turnout
- — → —