Constituency
231. Jhargram
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-JHARGRAM
CPM 41.0%won by 17.2%INC 23.8%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 17.2%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 29.5% to 41.0% of the vote here (+11.6%).
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 64.8% between them, down from 81.8% — 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
52,086
Margin
8,982
17.24%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1RAM CHANDRA SATPATHYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM21,37641.0%
- 2BIRENDRA BIJOY MALLA DEBIndian National Congress · INC12,39423.8%
- 3KALIPADA MAHATAIndependent · IND8,79516.9%
- 4NIRAPADA BHAKATJanata Party · JNP5,98311.5%
- 5HIMADRA CHAKRABARTYIndependent · IND2,8065.4%
- 6PANCHKARI DEIndependent · IND7321.4%
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
- +40.1%
- CPM share
- 29.5% → 41.0%
- INC share
- 52.3% → 23.8%
- Turnout
- — → —