Constituency
233. Banduan
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-BANDUAN
CPM 33.9%won by 9.6%INC 24.3%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 9.6%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 58.2% between them, down from 87.9% — the field split more ways.
- Multi-cornered5 candidates cleared 5% — a genuinely multi-cornered fight.
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
35,912
Margin
3,444
9.59%
Candidates
6 contested · winner CPM- 1SUDHANGSHU SEKHAR MAJHICommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM12,16533.9%
- 2BUDDESWAR MAJHIIndian National Congress · INC8,72124.3%
- 3MAHADEV HANSDAJanata Party · JNP8,62524.0%
- 4CHITTA RANJAN SINHAIndependent · IND2,7087.5%
- 5GOMASTA PRASAD SARENIndependent · IND2,2316.2%
- 6JAGARAN SARENIndependent · IND1,4624.1%
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
- +28.8%
- CPM share
- 34.3% → 33.9%
- INC share
- 53.6% → 24.3%
- Turnout
- — → —