Constituency
140. Cossipur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-COSSIPUR
CPM 43.0%won by 13.3%INC 29.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 13.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 28.2% to 43.0% of the vote here (+14.7%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.7% 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
45,033
Margin
5,976
13.27%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1BUDDHADEV BHATTACHARJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM19,36043.0%
- 2PRAFULLA KANTI GHOSHIndian National Congress · INC13,38429.7%
- 3PADMARAJ ROYJanata Party · JNP12,07626.8%
- 4KUMAR DUTTIndependent · IND1170.3%
- 5DURGA SINGHIndependent · IND960.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +56.8%
- CPM share
- 28.2% → 43.0%
- INC share
- 71.8% → 29.7%
- Turnout
- — → —