Constituency
284. Bolpur
Community mirrorWest Bengal Assembly Election, 1977
WB-BOLPUR
RSP 41.4%won by 15.3%INC 26.1%
What changed here
DerivedThe seat changed hands: Communist Party of India (CPI) lost it to Rashtriya Sarvajan Party (RSP), which now leads by 15.3%.
Boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977 — the comparison is matched by name and is indicative only.
- RSP vote shareRSP went from 0.0% to 41.4% of the vote here (+41.4%).
- New challengerIndian National Congress (INC) finished second with 26.1% — it did not contest here in 1972.
- Vote fragmentedThe top two took only 67.5% between them, down from 87.0% — 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
37,036
Margin
5,654
15.27%
Candidates
5 contested · winner RSPSince 1972
DerivedConstituency boundaries were redrawn between 1972 and 1977. Matched by name — treat this comparison as indicative only.
- Winner then
- CPI
- Winner now
- RSPflipped
- RSP–INC swing
- +15.3%
- RSP share
- 0.0% → 41.4%
- INC share
- 0.0% → 26.1%
- Turnout
- — → —