Constituency
159. Manicktola
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-MANICKTOLA
CPM 48.9%won by 25.4%JNP 23.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 25.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 32.6% to 48.9% of the vote here (+16.3%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 23.5% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 72.4% between them, down from 97.8% — 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
55,070
Margin
14,015
25.45%
Candidates
7 contested · winner CPM- 1SUHRID MULLICK CHOWDHURYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM26,94548.9%
- 2ASHOK DAS GUPTAJanata Party · JNP12,93023.5%
- 3PRADIP SARKARIndian National Congress · INC11,10920.2%
- 4ILA MITRACommunist Party of India · CPI2,7755.0%
- 5FATIK GHOSHSUC · SUC8671.6%
- 6SUKHOMOY DUTTA ROYIndependent · IND3020.5%
- 7SANTI RANJAN SINHA ROYIndependent · IND1420.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–JNP swing
- −7.2%
- CPM share
- 32.6% → 48.9%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 23.5%
- Turnout
- — → —