Constituency
192. Pursurah
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-PURSURAH
CPM 40.5%won by 0.4%JNP 40.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 0.4%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 0.0% to 40.5% of the vote here (+40.5%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 40.0% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 80.5% between them, down from 95.2% — 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
48,693
Margin
216
0.44%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1MANORANJAN HAZRACommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM19,71040.5%
- 2DURGA CHARAN CHAKRABARTYJanata Party · JNP19,49440.0%
- 3MAHADEV MUKHOPADHYAIndian National Congress · INC4,7859.8%
- 4SEKH ABDUL KASHEMIndependent · IND3,8918.0%
- 5H. M. RAFLKUL WAHABIndependent · IND7011.4%
- 6RAMPADA MAITIIndependent · IND1120.2%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- CPMflipped
- CPM–JNP swing
- +0.4%
- CPM share
- 0.0% → 40.5%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 40.0%
- Turnout
- — → —