Constituency
142. Jorabagan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-JORABAGAN
JNP 47.0%won by 19.6%CPM 27.4%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 19.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 47.0% of the vote here (+47.0%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 74.4% 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
40,444
Margin
7,920
19.58%
Candidates
9 contested · winner JNP- 1HARIPADA BHARATIJanata Party · JNP19,00547.0%
- 2HARA PRASAD CHATTERJEECommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM11,08527.4%
- 3ILA ROYIndian National Congress · INC9,78724.2%
- 4SHANKARLAL BAJORIAIndependent · IND2340.6%
- 5SUJIT CHAKRABORTYIndependent · IND880.2%
- 6RANJIT KUMAR SAHAIndependent · IND860.2%
- 7OM PRAKASH SHARMAIndependent · IND670.2%
- 8PUSPARDUT HARITALIndependent · IND570.1%
- 9SONAR SUBHKARANIndependent · IND350.1%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–CPM swing
- +43.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 47.0%
- CPM share
- 23.5% → 27.4%
- Turnout
- — → —