Constituency
206. Nandigram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-NANDIGRAM
JNP 44.6%won by 24.1%CPI 20.5%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 24.1%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- JNP vote shareJNP went from 0.0% to 44.6% of the vote here (+44.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 65.1% between them, down from 85.7% — 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
59,138
Margin
14,253
24.10%
Candidates
7 contested · winner JNP- 1PRABIR JANAJanata Party · JNP26,38844.6%
- 2BHUPAL CHANDRA PANDACommunist Party of India · CPI12,13520.5%
- 3RABINDRA NATH MAITICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM10,74418.2%
- 4RAMESH GHORAIIndian National Congress · INC8,93215.1%
- 5SUNIL BARAN MAITIIndependent · IND3820.6%
- 6SYED ASAF ALIIndependent · IND3520.6%
- 7SITANGSU SEKHAR DASIndependent · IND2050.3%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–CPI swing
- +70.4%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 44.6%
- CPI share
- 46.3% → 20.5%
- Turnout
- — → —