Constituency
276. Kalna
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-KALNA
CPM 56.1%won by 33.0%JNP 23.0%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 33.0%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 1.5% to 56.1% of the vote here (+54.6%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 23.0% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 79.1% between them, down from 99.3% — 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
56,768
Margin
18,752
33.03%
Candidates
3 contested · winner CPM- 1GURUPRASAD SINHA ROYCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM31,82656.1%
- 2DEBENDRA BEJOY GHOSHJanata Party · JNP13,07423.0%
- 3NURUL ISLAMIndian National Congress · INC11,86820.9%
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
- +31.5%
- CPM share
- 1.5% → 56.1%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 23.0%
- Turnout
- — → —