Constituency
145. Bow Bazar
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-BOW-BAZAR
CPM 38.5%won by 6.4%JNP 32.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 6.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 35.4% to 38.5% of the vote here (+3.2%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 32.1% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.7% 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
36,319
Margin
2,326
6.40%
Candidates
8 contested · winner CPM- 1ABUL HASANCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM13,99638.5%
- 2BIJOY KRISHNA DHANDHANIAJanata Party · JNP11,67032.1%
- 3ABDUL RAUF ANSARIIndian National Congress · INC8,16822.5%
- 4MANABENDRA GHOSHIndependent · IND1,6114.4%
- 5PRAKASH SHAWIndependent · IND5561.5%
- 6K. B. ROYIndependent · IND1820.5%
- 7HRISHIKESH TEWARIIndependent · IND680.2%
- 8ANINDYA KUMAR MITRAIndependent · IND680.2%
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–JNP swing
- −29.0%
- CPM share
- 35.4% → 38.5%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 32.1%
- Turnout
- — → —