Constituency
158. Burtola
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-BURTOLA
RSP 39.7%won by 8.7%INC 31.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP), which now leads by 8.7%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- RSP vote shareRSP went from 0.0% to 39.7% of the vote here (+39.7%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 70.7% between them, down from 96.9% — 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
53,481
Margin
4,661
8.72%
Candidates
7 contested · winner RSP- 1NIKHIL DASRashtriya Sarvajan Party · RSP21,24439.7%
- 2AJIT KUMAR PANDAIndian National Congress · INC16,58331.0%
- 3KAMALA SARKARJanata Party · JNP14,66927.4%
- 4ASIM BANERJEEIndependent · IND5511.0%
- 5TARAPADA MANNAIndependent · IND1700.3%
- 6AMALENDU ROYIndependent · IND1540.3%
- 7SANAT KUMAR MALLIKIndependent · IND1100.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- RSPflipped
- RSP–INC swing
- +77.2%
- RSP share
- 0.0% → 39.7%
- INC share
- 68.5% → 31.0%
- Turnout
- — → —