Constituency
183. Singur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-SINGUR
CPM 50.1%won by 27.0%IND 23.1%
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 27.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 39.2% to 50.1% of the vote here (+10.9%).
- New challengerIndependent (IND) finished second with 23.1% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 73.2% between them, down from 95.1% — 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
58,597
Margin
15,817
26.99%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1GOPAL BANDNOPADHYAYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM29,35850.1%
- 2TARAPADA SADHUKHANIndependent · IND13,54123.1%
- 3BHOTNATH BHATTACHARYYAIndependent · IND6,67011.4%
- 4PROBHAKAR PALJanata Party · JNP6,04310.3%
- 5GOPAL CHANDRA DASCommunist Party of India · CPI2,9855.1%
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–IND swing
- −12.2%
- CPM share
- 39.2% → 50.1%
- IND share
- 0.0% → 23.1%
- Turnout
- — → —