Constituency
181. Champdani
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-CHAMPDANI
CPM 63.6%won by 47.1%JNP 16.5%
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 47.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 46.3% to 63.6% of the vote here (+17.3%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 16.5% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.1% between them, down from 97.6% — 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
55,224
Margin
25,988
47.06%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPMSince 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
- +0.7%
- CPM share
- 46.3% → 63.6%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 16.5%
- Turnout
- — → —