Constituency
188. Balagarh
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-BALAGARH
CPM 61.6%won by 43.6%INC 18.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 43.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 45.1% to 61.6% of the vote here (+16.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.7% 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
46,021
Margin
20,080
43.63%
Candidates
5 contested · winner CPM- 1ABIMNASH PRAMANIKCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM28,37161.6%
- 2GAURANGA HALDERIndian National Congress · INC8,29118.0%
- 3HARE KRISHNA DASJanata Party · JNP7,56216.4%
- 4HARAYAN SARDARIndependent · IND1,6723.6%
- 5MUKUNDALAL BEGIndependent · IND1250.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–INC swing
- +53.5%
- CPM share
- 45.1% → 61.6%
- INC share
- 54.9% → 18.0%
- Turnout
- — → —