Constituency
151. Dhakuria
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-DHAKURIA
RSP 48.9%won by 26.2%INC 22.7%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP), which now leads by 26.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- RSP vote shareRSP went from 38.6% to 48.9% of the vote here (+10.3%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 22.7% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 71.6% 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
65,473
Margin
17,167
26.22%
Candidates
7 contested · winner RSP- 1JATIN CHAKRAVARTYRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP32,02948.9%
- 2ARABINDA PRASAD DAS GUPTAIndian National Congress · INC14,86222.7%
- 3ANIL BHATTACHRYYAJanata Party · JNP14,28921.8%
- 4JYOTIRMOY GUPTACommunist Party of India · CPI2,3783.6%
- 5NRIPENDRA NATH BANERJEEIndependent · IND1,6652.5%
- 6MAHENDRA KUMAR GHOSHIndependent · IND1400.2%
- 7ASHIM CHOWDHURYIndependent · IND1100.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- RSPflipped
- RSP–INC swing
- −12.4%
- RSP share
- 38.6% → 48.9%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 22.7%
- Turnout
- — → —