Constituency
209. Khajuri
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-KHAJURI
JNP 43.8%won by 20.8%CPM 23.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Janata Party (JNP), which now leads by 20.8%.
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 43.8% of the vote here (+43.8%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 66.7% between them, down from 87.6% — the field split more ways.
Written from the constituency figures by a fixed set of rules — no language model.
Electorate
—
not in source
Turnout
—
not in source
Valid votes
43,578
Margin
9,064
20.80%
Candidates
6 contested · winner JNP- 1SUNIRMAL PAIKJanata Party · JNP19,07143.8%
- 2SUNIL SITCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM10,00723.0%
- 3MEGHNATH MONDALIndian National Congress · INC8,52419.6%
- 4LALBEHARI DASIndependent · IND5,34512.3%
- 5MAKHANLAL MANDALIndependent · IND4191.0%
- 6JALADHAR PATRAIndependent · IND2120.5%
Since 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- INC
- Winner now
- JNPflipped
- JNP–CPM swing
- +46.7%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 43.8%
- CPM share
- 25.9% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- — → —