Constituency
144. Bara Bazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-BARA-BAZAR
JNP 44.4%won by 15.9%INC 28.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 15.9%.
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 44.4% of the vote here (+44.4%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.9% between them, down from 98.0% — 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
28,081
Margin
4,463
15.89%
Candidates
9 contested · winner JNP- 1RABI SHANKAR PANDEYJanata Party · JNP12,46644.4%
- 2RAMKRISHNA SAROGIIndian National Congress · INC8,00328.5%
- 3MURALIDHAR SANTHALIACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM4,76617.0%
- 4ASHKA MD. QUASIMUDDINIndependent · IND2,6419.4%
- 5MUZAFFAR KHANIndependent · IND620.2%
- 6SHYAM KANAHAYA SINGHIndependent · IND570.2%
- 7PARASMAL JAINIndependent · IND450.2%
- 8AGARWALLA MOHANLALIndependent · IND210.1%
- 9SHRI PRAKASH SHARMAIndependent · IND200.1%
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–INC swing
- +92.6%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 44.4%
- INC share
- 76.7% → 28.5%
- Turnout
- — → —