Constituency
279. Purbasthali
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-PURBASTHALI
CPM 66.0%won by 42.9%JNP 23.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Indian National Congress (INC) lost it to Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM), which now leads by 42.9%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- CPM vote shareCPM went from 31.2% to 66.0% of the vote here (+34.8%).
- New challengerJanata Party (JNP) finished second with 23.1% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 89.1% between them, down from 100.0% — 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
53,477
Margin
22,948
42.91%
Candidates
4 contested · winner CPM- 1MANORANJAN NATHCommunist Party of India (Marxist) · CPM35,29366.0%
- 2RAMA DEBIJanata Party · JNP12,34523.1%
- 3NARUNNESA SATTARIndian National Congress · INC5,54210.4%
- 4DAYAL HARI DASIndependent · IND2970.6%
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
- +11.7%
- CPM share
- 31.2% → 66.0%
- JNP share
- 0.0% → 23.1%
- Turnout
- — → —